Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) had a savage response to his fellow Democrat leader, Sen. Chuck Schumer (NY), offering to reopen the government, and said it involves needing “bail money” if God were to give him strength rather than patience after hearing it.
On Friday, Schumer announced his proposal, in which he said that he and his Democrat colleagues would agree to reopen the government if, and only if, the Republicans extended COVID-19-era Obama-care subsidies for another year, and then they could sit down to negotiate with the GOP to deal with healthcare costs.
.@SenSchumer: “Democrats are ready to clear the way to quickly pass a government funding bill that includes health care affordability. Leader Thune just needs to add a clean one-year extension of the ACA tax credits to the CR so that we can immediately address rising health care… pic.twitter.com/HvgLZHhhhb
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“Democrats are ready to clear the way to quickly pass a government funding bill that includes health care affordability. Leader Thune just needs to add a clean one-year extension of the ACA tax credits to the CR so that we can immediately address rising health care costs. That’s not a negotiation, it’s an extension of current law…We also offer this, let’s create a bipartisan committee that will continue negotiations after the government reopens…”
Donkeys…’: LA’s Sen. Kennedy Predicts How Schumer Shutdown Ends in His One-of-a-Kind Way
Speaking to Fox News’ Martha McCallum on Friday, the host asked Kennedy his reaction to the proposal, which wasn’t new in any way.
Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) takes Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) behind the shed over his proposal to reopen the government. “God, please give me patience, because if you give me strength, I’m going to need bail money.”
“What Senator Schumer is suggesting is that we do the dumbest… pic.twitter.com/vMjDYEMIev
— RedWave Press (@RedWave_Press) November 7, 2025
“God, please give me patience, because if you give me strength, I’m going to need bail money,” Kennedy replied, and the host couldn’t help but laugh.
“What Senator Schumer is suggesting is that we do the dumbest thing possible that won’t work. Stupid should hurt more.” “[Schumer’s proposal] means we would have to take $35B of taxpayer money and give it directly to health insurance companies without any commitment of lowering premiums.”
“How’s that going to reduce healthcare costs?” he added. “How’s that going to reduce premiums? The healthcare companies are going to take $35 billion from the taxpayers and put it into their pocket.”
“I don’t know what Senator Schumer is thinking,” Kennedy continued. “I mean, Earth to Chuck… Am I going to vote for this? The short answer is no. The long answer is hell no. I think we are just going to have to get used to the fact that we’ve been in a shutdown, we’re going to be in a shutdown for a while.”
Kennedy pointed out that he had voted 14 times to lift the shutdown, and the Democrats and Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) have voted 14 times to keep the government shutdown. ‘We’re just going to be here for a while,” he added.
SEE: Sen. Kennedy Hilariously Eviscerates Schumer and Rest of Dems on Their Shutdown and Their TDS
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In a post earlier in the day, Sen. Kennedy might have come up with an idea that will actually end the nonsense being caused by the Democrats with the shutdown, by cutting their Congressional pay.
I’ve voted more than a dozen times to fund the government—but many politicians are too scared of pressure from socialists to do the right thing.
I think a missing paycheck would make them grow a spine.https://t.co/vtuMBsVtTr
— John Kennedy (@SenJohnKennedy) November 7, 2025
“I’ve voted more than a dozen times to fund the government—but many politicians are too scared of pressure from socialists to do the right thing,” Kennedy wrote. “I think a missing paycheck would make them grow a spine.”
Kennedy might be right that when Democrats see zero paychecks, like Air Traffic Controllers have experienced, they might snap out of this insanity.
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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