Rep. Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., told Newsmax on Wednesday that he does not expect the partial government shutdown to end this week, accusing Democrats of deliberately prolonging the impasse to appease the far left of the party.
“Based on the way Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries are conducting themselves, unfortunately, I don’t think so,” Lawler said on “Finnerty” when asked if the shutdown might end by Thursday or Friday.
The federal government entered its eighth day of a partial shutdown Wednesday after Senate Democrats again rejected a House-passed stopgap funding measure that would keep operations running through mid-November.
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