JD Vance Tells Ben Shapiro Democrat Support For Shutdown Is ‘Cracking’
Vice President JD Vance told Ben Shapiro on Wednesday that Democrats’ unity on the government shutdown is beginning to break down, less than a full day into the funding standoff.
Speaking on “The Ben Shapiro Show,” Vance said that the votes of several Democratic senators for a GOP stopgap measure showed that rank-and-file members of the party are already feeling pressure to abandon Senate leadership and their blockade of government funding.
“You already see, I think, the Democrats cracking a little bit because they realize it’s such a preposterous position to say, ‘We’re gonna shut down TSA, we’re gonna not pay our troops because you guys won’t give us benefits for illegal aliens.’ It’s crazy, and I don’t think it’s a tenable political situation for them to be in,” Vance told Shapiro.
On Tuesday night, Sens. John Fetterman (D-PA) and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NM), along with independent Sen. Angus King (I-ME), broke with Democratic leadership to back the temporary spending bill, which would keep federal funding at last year’s levels.
Vance accused Democrats of pushing for a $1.5 trillion increase in spending that includes taxpayer-funded healthcare for illegal immigrants.
“Under the Biden administration, we would pay all of the hospital benefits for illegal aliens if they went to an American hospital,” he said. “So we turned that program off in President Trump’s ‘One Big, Beautiful Bill.’ The Democrats want to turn it back on, and that would cost, again, hundreds of billions of dollars.”
He blasted the demand as yet another example of Democrats prioritizing illegal immigrants over American citizens and warned they are risking political disaster by holding the government hostage.
“If they want to turn it back on, there is a clean, easy piece of legislation that nearly every Republican supports. They should just vote for it, turn the government back on, and then we can have the debate about health care policy that they seem to want to have,” Vance said.
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