{"id":2505536,"date":"2025-11-01T13:42:02","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T17:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fetterman-rips-schumer-for-using-americans-as-leverage-in-shutdown-not-some-shty-game-show\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T13:43:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T17:43:30","slug":"fetterman-rips-schumer-for-using-americans-as-leverage-in-shutdown-not-some-shty-game-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fetterman-rips-schumer-for-using-americans-as-leverage-in-shutdown-not-some-shty-game-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Fetterman Rips Schumer for Using Americans as &#8216;Leverage&#8217; in Shutdown: &#8216;Not Some Sh**ty Game Show&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffetterman-rips-schumer-for-using-americans-as-leverage-in-shutdown-not-some-shty-game-show%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2505536&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Democratic Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania criticized Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer for the government shutdown, calling it an &#8220;absolute failure.&#8221; The partial shutdown began at midnight on October 1 after the Senate failed to pass a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-democrats-tell-gop-to-advance-bipartisan-spending-bill-only-way-forward\/\" title=\"... Democrats urge GOP to support bipartisan spending bill as the sole path forward.\">continuing resolution due<\/a> to a Democratic filibuster, despite the House passing a <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" ><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-calls-on-congress-to-move-forward-on-raising-debt-ceiling\/\" title=\"Biden Calls On Congress To \u2018Move Forward\u2019 On Raising Debt Ceiling\">short-term funding bill<\/a> earlier<\/a>. Fetterman condemned the idea that the shutdown could politically benefit Democrats, highlighting the real impact on Americans, especially those reliant on government assistance like the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). He shared that his wife operates a community food program that is seeing increased demand amid the shutdown. fetterman expressed frustration at the inability of lawmakers to agree to reopen the government, emphasizing the hardship faced by families and workers during this period. He urged democrats to take action to end the shutdown and resume funding to protect vulnerable Americans.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Democratic Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania lambasted Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York over the government shutdown in an interview posted on social media Thursday, saying it was an &ldquo;absolute failure.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/federal-government-shuts-down-after-congress-lets-funding-expire\/\" title=\"Federal ... shuts down after Congress lets funding expire\">federal government entered<\/a> a partial shutdown at 12:01 a.m. Eastern Time on Oct. 1 after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trump-tells-republicans-initiate-nuclear-option-crazy-democrats\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate<\/a> failed to pass a continuing resolution, falling short of the 60 votes needed to overcome a Democratic filibuster after the House of Representatives passed the short-term funding bill on Sept. 19.<\/p>\n<p>CNN Chief Congressional Correspondent Manu Raju <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/mkraju\/status\/1984066152746906055\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">asked<\/a> Fetterman about Schumer&rsquo;s claim that the shutdown benefits Democrats politically.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Yeah, well, ask the hungry people on Saturday. You know, that&rsquo;s the thing&hellip; Americans are not leverage,&rdquo; Fetterman said. &ldquo;This is not &mdash; this is not some s***ty game show about who&rsquo;s winning or whatever. It&rsquo;s just like &mdash; like, we have to be better than this and just open this up. And I do talk to any number of Republicans, too. They agree that we have this conversation about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/socialist-left-regrouped-politics-mamdani-aoc-sanders-fueling-dems-long-shutdown\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">extending<\/a> these tax credits.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>In an earlier part of the interview, Fetterman discussed his wife Gisele&rsquo;s efforts to provide food for the less fortunate.<\/p>\n<p>  <script> console.log(\"A\/B Test Video Player\"); \/\/ Helper function to set a cookie function setVideoCookie(name, value, days) {     var expires=\"\";     if (days) {         var date=new Date();         date.setTime(date.getTime() + (days*24*60*60*1000));         expires=\"; expires=\" + date.toUTCString();     }     document.cookie=name + \"=\" + (value || \"\")  + expires + \"; path=\/\"; }  \/\/ Helper function to get a cookie function getVideoCookie(name) {     var nameEQ=name + \"=\";     var ca=document.cookie.split(';');     for(var i=0; i <ca.length; i++) {         var c=ca[i];         while (c.charAt(0)==' ') c=c.substring(1,c.length); 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My wife Gisele, she develops a free store in our community, and it distributes food three times a week, and her lines have already got longer and now I will encounter people that have no SNAP benefits starting on Saturday, and I don&rsquo;t have an explanation for them,&rdquo; Fetterman told Raju.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;All I could say is I&rsquo;m sorry. It&rsquo;s an absolute failure, what occurred here for the last month, and now things are really gonna land. And imagine being a parent with a couple kids and how you&rsquo;re going to fill their refrigerator and pack their lunches and get on with their lives when the things that they&rsquo;ve depended on now is gone because we can&rsquo;t even agree to just open things up.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, commonly referred to as food stamps, assists roughly 42 million Americans. SNAP benefits will not be provided on Nov. 1 if a continuing resolution is not passed.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Democrats, if we&rsquo;re not allowed to just open this up, I mean, then our party has bigger problems than I thought we might have already. It&rsquo;s like, that&rsquo;s not controversial, pay everybody,&rdquo; Fetterman told Raju.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;And you have our workers here borrow over a third of a billion dollars to pay their own bills. Like, it&rsquo;s a failure. 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