Talks aimed at ending the shutdown may be picking up because Democrats are realizing they’re losing some of their main supporters by refusing to provide needed government services that the public wants, Rep. Jodey Arrington told Newsmax on Wednesday.
The Texas Republican, who chairs the House Budget Committee, said on Newsmax’s “Wake Up America” that “I’m hearing what I think [Senate Minority Leader] Chuck Schumer is hearing, which is a lot of labor unions decrying the Democrat shutdown in the Senate, a shutdown where they have rejected 13 times now a clean CR [Continuing Resolution].”
Arrington said that the public’s pain “is catching up with the political interest now of the Democrat Party. Initially they thought that the pain was their political gain, that the suffering of the American people, as they would say, was good leverage for them.”
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