The leftist complaint narrative over the deal to end the Schumer Shutdown is something else.
The folks who are always claiming that they care about people are furious that some Senate Democrats joined the Republicans in voting to open the government so that federal employees could get paid, airplanes could fly more safely, and millions who rely on SNAP could eat. So when it came down to it, the whole nation saw that their priority is their leftism, not the people.
I have to hand it to Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA). He had to know he was going to face that complaint narrative when he appeared on The View on Tuesday, and face it, he did.
Co-host Sunny Hostin cited Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), who called it a “horrible mistake,” and California Gov. Gavin Newsom. She even claimed that Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (GA-14) blamed Republicans. “Why give in now? Why bring a butter knife to a gunfight?” she ranted. She spoke about the healthcare costs going up. But they won’t be going up because of the continuing resolution; they’ll be going up due to the expiration of the COVID subsidies at the end of this year – a sunset the Democrats set up in the Inflation Reduction Act. That’s all on Democrats, and the whole Obamacare unaffordable mess is on them, too.
🚨 NEW 🚨 @JohnFetterman doesn’t take Sunny Hostin’s lecture as she tried to shame him for voting MULTIPLE TIMES to reopen government @DailyCaller pic.twitter.com/0nzCWCUYK2
— Nicole Silverio (@NicoleMSilverio) November 11, 2025
Fetterman nuked Hostin’s points into next week, saying he didn’t care what any of those people thought.
“I don’t need a lecture from, whether it’s Bernie or the governor in California, because they are representing very deep blue kinds of populations. And a lot of those things were part of the extreme.
He said he represented Pennsylvania and indicated he thought they lost his state because of the extremism, and they shouldn’t be returning to those things. He said rather than Greene, he would cite to one of the newly elected Democratic governors [Virginia’s Abigail Spanberger] who said her election was not a green light to continue the shutdown and that they should open the government even without a deal on the ACA subsidies.
“This is not a political game,” he declared. “42 million Americans don’t know where their next meal is coming from because we vote like that. And people who haven’t been paid for five weeks now.” So the left wants those people to suffer while they hold them hostage to the political agenda.
Fetterman is bringing Hostin and others who think like that back to the reality of what lawmakers are supposed to be about, serving the people more than their own political ends. But he’s also making another sage point in there: that not being extreme would also be better for them politically because the American people don’t want the extremism they are embracing. That’s a level of understanding that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and House Minority Leader, Democratic Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (NY-8) don’t seem to have.
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Typical leftist attack, but Fetterman crushes it. Too bad they don’t have more like him willing to take such stands.
Editor’s Note: After more than 40 days of screwing Americans, a few Dems have finally caved. The Schumer Shutdown was never about principle—just inflicting pain for political points.
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