Schumer Slammed After Making Guilty Confession On Senate Floor
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D–NY) is under fire from both parties after admitting what most Americans already suspected — that Democrats see the federal government shutdown as a political win rather than a national crisis.
According to Punchbowl News, Schumer told fellow Democrats that the prolonged shutdown — now in its second week — was “getting better for us every day,” a statement that immediately drew outrage from Republicans and condemnation from the White House.
“Every day gets better for us,” Schumer reportedly said. “It’s because 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.”
The comment, which revealed the cynical political calculation behind the Democrats’ obstruction, came as Americans across the country continue to feel the pain of the shutdown — from unpaid federal workers to grounded travelers and struggling small businesses.
Hours after his remarks leaked, Schumer escalated tensions further on the Senate floor, accusing House Speaker Mike Johnson (R–LA) of “killing his own constituents” for refusing to cave to Democrat demands.
“Good Americans in your own state will die,” Schumer shouted. “All because the Speaker chose to keep the House on vacation rather than negotiate with Democrats and end their Trump shutdown. Shameful.”
Republicans quickly condemned the tirade.
“Chuck Schumer just said the quiet part out loud,” said White House Deputy Press Secretary Abigail Jackson. “Democrats are gleefully inflicting pain on the American people over their push to give illegal aliens free health care.”
Jackson added that “workers are missing paychecks, travelers are missing flights, businesses are struggling, and military families are forced to rely on food pantries — but to Chuck Schumer, that means ‘every day gets better.’”
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt echoed the criticism on X (formerly Twitter):
“While federal workers stress over missed paychecks and airports face delays, Chuck Schumer and the Democrats are bragging that ‘every day gets better’ for them. What a disgusting and revealing statement.”
Meanwhile, Senate Democrats on Tuesday blocked for the eighth time a Republican-led measure to reopen the government — despite growing economic fallout and public backlash.
The shutdown began after Democrats demanded the restoration of health care funding for illegal immigrants, a measure Republicans rejected as “reckless and unfair to taxpayers.”
Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought warned over the weekend that mass layoffs of nonessential federal employees would begin unless Democrats agree to meaningful spending reforms.
In contrast, President Donald J. Trump has acted decisively to protect America’s troops and their families, ordering the Pentagon to reallocate funds to ensure service members are paid on time — even as Democrats block broader government operations.
Democrats, however, remain fixated on extending expiring Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies before the November 1 enrollment deadline, a demand Republicans say should be debated only after the government reopens.
“Democrats are trying to undo $1.5 trillion in spending cuts we already passed in the big, beautiful bill,” President Trump said earlier this week. “We’re not going back to the waste and abuse of the Biden years.”
Despite mounting pressure, Schumer and his allies have refused to budge — prioritizing political optics over the livelihoods of millions of Americans.
Schumer’s careless boast that “every day gets better for us” may go down as one of the most callous admissions of political gamesmanship in modern Washington history — a moment that exposes just how out of touch Democratic leadership has become with the very people they claim to represent.