Senator Kennedy exposes it was Schumer’s plan all along to shutdown the government:
Kennedy: “You need an Excel spreadsheet to be able to follow their demands. Their demands to keep government open—you stack them here, you could stand on them and paint the ceiling. And that’s not much of an exaggeration.
And when Senator Schumer announced these demands, that’s when I knew. I knew it in a nanosecond, we’re going to have a shutdown. Because my colleagues, my Democratic colleagues, are very smart people. And Senator Schumer is a smart person.
And he knew when he announced these demands that—I could tell he wasn’t serious. He knew they were unserious, and he knew that neither the President nor the other members of Congress were going to accept them.
And you know what? Many Democrats know they’re unreasonable as well.
So that’s why I say the policy part of this makes absolutely no sense. And that’s because this isn’t about policy. This shutdown is about politics.”