One of the things I remember hearing a lot from GOP voters in the years prior to Donald Trump taking office the first time was how they were tired of hearing a lot of talk and seeing very little in the way of action that produced meaningful results.
It was completely understandable because even the greatest of speeches is meaningless if it ends up being just words with nothing to show for it at the end of the day. I think it’s pretty much universally understood and agreed upon at this point that those frustrations are in large part what helped draw voters to Trump.
In the case of the Schumer Shutdown, we’ve been fortunate to see both words and action from Republicans, with the House passing the clean continuing resolution on September 19th and the Senate holding 14 votes to get Senate Democrats on record as voting to keep the government shut down every time.
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As RedState has reported, GOP House Speaker Mike Johnson (LA-04) has been particularly effective in this regard, taking wrecking balls to Democrat talking points about the Schumer Shutdown literally every day since it started, pointing out each time that the reason we are in the situation we are in today is because of Democrats who are beholden to their radical leftist base.
On Monday, Johnson did it again, mowing down every Democrat talking point and calling them “the most extreme [examples] of gaslighting in the history of American politics,” which is saying a lot considering how often we see gaslighting from the left and their media allies.
Most notably, Johnson reiterated how NYC Democrat Socialist mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani’s ascension to the throne in New York politics has caused Democrat leaders in the House and Senate, both of whom are from New York, to cower in fear instead of doing the right thing and getting their respective caucuses to come to the table:
Because the fear that Mamdani and all that he represents will be risen to power, that he’ll elected the mayor of America’s largest city, the once cradle of capitalism, that we’re going have a Marxist, a communist, running the largest city. Now this terrifies the establishment old guard Democrats in Washington, and the leaders of both chambers are among those most terrified. They’re both from New York. Leader Hakeem Jeffries is the Democrat in the House, and Leader Schumer in the Senate. They’re both from New York, and they’re terrified. You’ve watched their actions carefully. Many of you have not reported on it enough.
Poor Hakeem Jeffries had to ultimately, finally, he was forced to endorse Mamdani, and he’s terrified that he now owns the results of that. Chuck Schumer’s been dancing around the issue, but he knows he’s darned if he does, darned if he doesn’t. They’re both terrified, and so that is the fear. This is a fact, and you should print it this way. Schumer and Jeffries, and their colleagues, fear political retribution from the Far-Left activists in their party more than they fear the consequences of keeping the government closed for weeks on end.
They fear that personally, for their own political future, and they care more about that than they care about SNAP benefits flowing to hungry families, about air traffic controllers being paid so they can keep the skies safe, border patrol, troops, and all the rest. It pales in comparison, and this is a simple summary that is a simple fact. It is extremism on the Left that is the direct cause of American suffering right now.
Watch:
Speaker Johnson: Government Is Shut Down Because Schumer And Jeffries Are “Terrified” Of Mamdani
“They fear political retribution from the far-left activists in their party… more than they care about SNAP benefits, air traffic control, border patrol, and all the rest.” pic.twitter.com/d0qyncfgg0
— RCP Video (@rcpvideo) November 3, 2025
And just to demonstrate how Johnson’s message is getting through even with some in the notoriously Democrat-compliant press, take a look at these two segments from CNN, for instance, where the anchor herself is now putting the onus on Democrats to reopen the government:
Nick Daniels, President of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association is calling on Democrats to reopen the government NOW.
“Air traffic controllers cannot be used as a political pawn…our message is simple, open the government and it has to open now.” pic.twitter.com/YqqhHMNAyo
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) November 3, 2025
Congressman Sarah McBride gets schooled by CNN after blaming Republicans for the shutdown.
“You’re in the House, but you know in the Senate there’s a 60-vote threshold…Democrats are also making a choice.” pic.twitter.com/QiMUbU4EuP
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) November 3, 2025
There’s not much of anything Johnson can do right now, action-wise, to shame Democrats into coming to the table. But he has the power of words (and the facts) in his corner, and if polls and the media increasingly skewering Democrats are reliable indicators, the message is indeed resonating in the court of public opinion.
Editor’s Note: The Schumer Shutdown is here. Rather than put the American people first, Chuck Schumer and the radical Democrats forced a government shutdown for healthcare for illegals. They own this.
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