(DCNF)—Republican Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy said on Fox Business Monday that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer will ultimately be forced to engineer an off-ramp to end the ongoing government shutdown.
The government shutdown continues after Schumer led most Democrats in voting down the Republicans’ spending bill early Wednesday morning. Appearing on “Kudlow,” Kennedy said the shutdown has little to do with policy disputes and everything to do with Schumer’s political standing within his caucus.
“It will end eventually, when Senator Schumer goes to six or eight of his members and Democrats and says, ‘Do me a favor. Vote to open it back up. I may have to criticize you. I’m not going to vote with you, but I need a way out of this,’” Kennedy told host Larry Kudlow. “I need an offer. And that’s what’s going to happen. But he’s got to be careful because if it looks contrived, he’s boning. And he can’t look like he’s having a mutiny. But that’s how we’ll open back.”
Kennedy said Schumer is stalling to appease what he described as the “moon wing” of the Democratic Party despite knowing they will never fully embrace him.
“I know him. Well, this shutdown is not about policy. It’s about politics. And Senator Schumer, this is what’s going on. He is trying to get the moon wing, the socialist wing of the Democratic Party, which is in control to love him. And they will never love him,” Kennedy added. “They won’t. He’d be better off doing what he did back in March and just calling it like he saw it and keeping government open. Because what he’s saying, we’re going to keep government shut down until you Republicans and President Trump give the Democrats $1.5 trillion, and they’re going to tell us how to spend it.”
Kennedy took to the Senate floor Friday and accused Democrats of holding the government hostage to restore millions in what he called wasteful foreign projects. He said lawmakers had already removed the provisions, but the party’s far-left wing is now threatening to prolong the shutdown unless the funding is reinstated.
Kennedy said Democrats are demanding the return of spending items that Republicans had already removed, including millions for overseas LGBTQ programs, sex worker workshops, and electric buses in Rwanda. He also cited funding for Palestinian media, pride parades, and sterilization efforts abroad as part of what he called wasteful foreign projects Democrats want reinstated.
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John Kennedy is an astute senator but their are some things one needs to hate like deceit, lies, perverted speech, false witness, devising wicked plans and the like. People do not scheme to do good but scheme to do evil. This is the kind of discernment we need among our leaders, that they understand what is good and what is evil. Their task is to protect those who do what is good and punish those whose behavior is evil.
He does not hate the person. The acts of that person is different. Hate the sin and not the sinner.
Kennedy is a good talker. He did not describe what will force Schumer to end the partial shutdown, he described how Schumer will end the shutdown. Kennedy is not nearly as good at analysis as he is at rhetoric.
China Mitch would be compromising with the dems, and Kennedy would vote for Mitch’s bad compromise.
Kennedy is certainly not the conservative he pretends to be. Kennedy was a democrat the first 16 years of his political career. He endorsed the far left John Kerry for president.
I agree. Kennedy’s cake is fake and bake.
Kennedy is a professional line walker like joe rogan in a time when we need fearless christian Charlie Kirks
Kirk murdered by israel. Stew Peters has videos
Christ is King
You need to know Jesus. What you are saying is not of Him.
You had me until you quoted Stewed Peters (that man it’s disgusting) and bashed Israel. Then I realized “aha..just another Jew hater.”
Shutdown ends next week when photos of the glitzy fund raiser in Napa Valley starts coming out.
Sadly, most members of CONgress are not America First, they are Me First with Chuck a leading example.
Sen. Kennedy once accurately said of Schumer on the Senate floor — “Nature abhors a moron.”
Herein lies the problem. Representatives have long since stopped being loyal to their constituents and are now loyal to the point of military command to the party and vote lockstep as told by the leader. I believe the Dems gained that authority through Epstein-like corruption, bribes, and blackmail. This is NOT what the founders of Constitutiinal governance ordered! The Dems are far worse than Republicans, but both are disgusting. Fetterman appears to be the only Democrat in office who DARES defect and exactly like Kennedy claims, defection will be by command, not free thinking or constituent-representing Democrats. Republicans are quickly falling in line. It is not a problem when you see pressure to unite on certain issues. But when you see block voting on every issue…it’s time to break the pattern.
My Fellow THIS FAKE GOVERNMENT TIME IS OVER
DOG-E Prove it
WTFU
1913 TO
TODAY It has
STOLEN PERVERTED DESTROYED TRUST
45-47 needs a WAR
No different then any other so-called potus
The SOUL-LUTION
IS NOW NO DIFFERENT THEN
1776
READ YOUR AMERICAN MISSION STATEMENT
THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
No where is found the one word all this RATS
SAY as if it is a FACT
DEMOCRACY
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
WAS VERY CLEAR
HE WAS THE ARCHITECT TO UNDERSTAND
A SIMPLE FACT
WHEN
ONE PEOPLE WOULD KNOW
WHY
THE SECOND WAS ALL
ONE PEOPLE HAD AGAINST THE LEFT
THE REPUBLIC OF THE UNITED STATES
A REPUBLIC IF YOU CAN KEEP IT
IS GONE WITH THE
WIND
THE SOUL-LUTION IN THE FIRST PARAGRAPH
OF OUR AMERICAN MISSION STATEMENT
DISSOLVE THE POO-LITCAL BANDITS
FOR THEY ARE
THE MOB
THEY ARE THE EVIL MEN AND WOMEN
WHO IN OUR FACE HAVE FUNDED
CHINA
Today my fellow Americans still time to understand what IS
IN A BOOK
WRITTEN IN 1913 BY
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
HE KNEW WHAT THE TREASON WAS TO COME
FEAR GOD AND TAKE YOUR OWN PART
1913 He wrote the book
One WORD
And his EXPLANATION OF THAT WORD
ALL AMERICANS NOW CAN SEE
AND HEAR IT
CHINAFY
HE CALLED IT IN
1913
THE OLD ROUGH RIDER
HE KNEW THEIR PLAN
IN 1913
45-47 Has sold their democracy to
THE DRAGON
WTFU
PSALM 91
WRITTEN TO
YOU
IN A VERY
GOOD BOOK
READ IT STUDY IT
THE DRAGON is a fool nation state now
Want to know WHY 45-47
Has not OPENED
FORT KNOX
WTFU
TREASON IS IN SEASON