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As polls continue to show that more Americans blame the Republicans for the government shutdown, vice president JD Vance led a MAGA meltdown over the Democrats' victory lap, The Daily Beast reports.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said Wednesday that "every day it gets better for [Democrats]" — a claim that prompted outrage among President Donald Trump's most loyal supporters.
"We’ve thought about this long in advance and we knew that health care would be the focal point on Sept. 30 and we prepared for it … Their whole theory was — threaten us, bamboozle us, and we would submit in a day or two," Schumer told Punchbowl.
Vance called the New York senator’s victory lap “vile."
“Better for Schumer. Worse for Americans. What a vile sentiment from an alleged leader in our country," wrote Vance on his personal X account.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt called Schumer's brief statement “disgusting and revealing.”
"While federal workers stress over missed paychecks, military families turn to food pantries, and airports around the country face delays — Chuck Schumer and the Democrats are bragging that ‘every day gets better’ for them,” Leavitt said. “Democrats are gleeful about inflicting pain on the American people.”
According to the most recent poll, however, Democrats are winning in the shutdown.
A YouGov survey conducted between Saturday and Monday found that 41 percent of Americans blame Trump and congressional Republicans for the shutdown, compared to 30 percent for Democrats.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) — who on Thursday took heat from a Republican caller on C-SPAN over the shutdown — joined the GOP pile-on, posting on X.
"Yesterday, Chuck Schumer — the engineer of the painful shutdown — told Punchbowl the following," Johnson wrote above a meme of Schumer's statement. "Incredible."
Senator Rick Scott (R-FL) wrote, “Schumer gets paid during a shutdown, but our military is about to miss a paycheck. While our troops are worried about not being able to provide for their families, Democrats are celebrating the pain they’re causing with this reckless Schumer Shutdown.”
White House director of communication Steven Cheung posted on X, "Chuck Schumer is admitting the Democrat Shutdown — where they are hurting everyday Americans — is a positive thing. Every Democrat should be asked if they agree with Schumer. Vile. Craven. Disgusting."
Schumer, meanwhile, held the line. His pinned post on X reads: "The government is shut down because Trump and the Republicans are hellbent on taking health care away from you. And they won’t even come to the table to talk to us about it. This is not about politics. It's about people."