Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, tore into the Democratic Party during House GOP leaders’ press conference on Day 20 of the government shutdown after anti-Trump protests swept the country over the weekend.<\/p>\n
He blasted the left’s embrace of the ‘No Kings’ rallies, where millions of people across the U.S. took to city streets to protest President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n
‘This is the dying breaths of a bankrupt party, in my humble opinion, all too happy to shut down the government,’ Roy said during the press conference Monday.<\/p>\n
He and House Freedom Caucus Chair Andy Harris, R-Md., joined House GOP leaders’ daily shutdown press conference in a show of unity across the Republican conference.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
‘No one disputes one obvious fact: It is Democrats who have chosen not to fund government. We can at least establish that truth, right? It is, in fact, the truth. And the question is, why?’ Roy said.<\/p>\n
‘And you saw it on Saturday \u2014 it was basically for a political rally, a rally for cover for [Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.], who’s in his own political battle in New York,’ he added in reference to Republican accusations that left-wing leaders are kowtowing to Democrats’ progressive base.<\/p>\n
He continued, ‘That’s the truth. And the irony of this is, this \u2018No Kings\u2019 rally. What are we actually talking about? I mean, it wasn’t President Trump, but Democrats who tried to make us take a shot or lose our job. It wasn’t President Trump, but Democrats who were burning our cities to the ground in 2020 and attacking police officers.’<\/p>\n
Republican leaders spent last week hammering Democrats who planned to participate in Saturday’s ‘No Kings’ rallies, including Schumer.<\/p>\n
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., during his portion of the press conference, made a plea to Schumer to accept the GOP’s federal funding bill now that the protests were over.<\/p>\n
‘Now that Democrats have had their protest and publicity stunts, I just pray that they come to their senses and end this shutdown and reopen the government this week. Republicans are waiting. The American people are waiting,’ Johnson said.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The House passed a bill<\/u> to keep the federal government funded at current levels through Nov. 21 \u2014 called a continuing resolution (CR) \u2014 mostly along party lines last month.<\/p>\n
It’s since failed 10 times in the Senate, with a majority of Democrats rejecting any spending deal that does not also include an extension of COVID-19 pandemic-era Obamacare subsidies that will expire at the end of this year without congressional action.<\/p>\n
The ongoing government shutdown is now the third-longest in history.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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