Republicans blame Schumer for government shutdown over AOC primary fears

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In the intense criminal play war on the closure of the federal government, the Republicans are cruel that they see as a guilty and motive.
Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer’s Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a New York, a New York, a New York, a New York, a new York, a new York, a progressive rock star representative, forced him to temporarily close him.
He is doing his lawsuits among republicans – Vice President JD Vance And home speaker Mike Johnson.
“This is basically Chuck Schumer, Vance Vance said in an interview with Fox News on Wednesday morning on” Fox and Friends “. “He’s worried that AOC will get the primary challenge.”
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Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, DN.Y. And then Senate, the majority leader Sen. Chuck Schumer, DN.Y., speaks at Capitol Hill on Tuesday, August 3, 2021. (Through Getty Images, Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times)
Hours later, Vance on the White House briefing continued to shoot Schumer.
“Let’s be honest about the real and politics here, the fear of Chuck Schumer that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will take a primary challenge.” “The reason for the closure of the American People’s Government is that Chuck Schumer is listening to the left -wing radicals in his party, because he is afraid of primary difficulty.”
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Johnson, who forced the same message, claimed on Wednesday morning in an interview about Fox business’ “Mornings with Maria“This” alone has a reason and a reason for Chuck Schumer’s democrats from this cliff. He’s trying to get political cover from the left corner of his base. AOC, or by someone like this, is afraid of a challenge for the Senate seat. “
Even though all parties are on the hot seat in the political war, it is to feel that the heat could be 74 -year -old Schumer who has been leading the Senate democrats for about ten years.
The closure opposes more vocal opposition after Trump voting with Republicans to prevent the closure of a government in the spring of Trump after a second chance from New York or a violent reaction from the Democratic Party Base from New York.
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Schumer’s movement asked questions about whether he would face a leadership challenge in 15 months while the new congress was gathered, and whether the Senator continued to be re-elected in 2028, whether he would encounter a primary challenge from Ocasio-Cortez.
Sen, who has long been a great national attention for a long time, has long been a progressive champion and a democratic presidential candidate for a long time this year. Together with Bernie Sanders, it is thought to come together with the 2028 Senate offer or a run for the White House in New York.

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Sen Bernie Sanders (I-VT) participates in the ‘fighting oligarchy’ in the Dignity Health Arena in Bakersfield, California, on April 15, 2025. (Reuters/Aude Guerrucci)
When asked about the theory of the Republicans, he survived the question about possible political requests of a member of the group of progressive and various home members, known as cadres.
But in an interview on Wednesday night, he said that the closure was “not about me” In MSNBC.
“I saw some senators speculation on this issue, and some republican congress members say ‘Well, Oh, if we have this closing, because of the AOC’ said. “If these senators think we’re closed because of me, they’re free to enter and negotiate.”
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While talking to Journalists at Capitol Hill on Wednesday, Parliament Speaker Emerita Representative Nancy Pelosi rejected the claim that the Republican Ocasio-Cortez “directed the closure”.
“He’s not,” he said for a long time from California.
And Pelosi pointed out his successor as his successor’s democratic leader and said, “Hakeem Jeffries stressed that he has a lot of experience, and in terms of his perspective, he is very unity than Caucus.
And a democratic strategist working on the Senate races underestimated GOP’s theory in Schumer. The strategist, who wanted to remain anonymous, said that the democrats were more about 2026 politics, which they aim to regain the majority in the room from 2028.
While the Republicans frame the closure as “Schumer closure”, the Senate minority leader and party call it “Republican closure”.
“This means that the Republican closure has just begun because they will not protect the health services of Americans. We will continue to fight for the American people.”R When the closure started, it was published on social media.

Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer, DN.Y. and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, DN.Y., Right, Talk to President Donald Trump and Republican leaders at Capitol in Washington on Monday, September 29, 2025. (J. Scott AppleWhite – AP Photo)
The Democrats insisted that any agreement on preventing the government from closing or now to terminate the closure should extend tax loans beyond the end of this year for the popular appropriate maintenance law (ACA). The loans that millions of Americans trust to reduce the costs of health plans within the scope of ACA, known as Obamacare, will expire unless there are congress actions.
However, most republican loans oppose the extension and argue that the demands of the Democrats will lead to a major increase in health services financed by the taxpayer for immigrants who enter the country illegally.
“FOX and Friends” interview, “I think the American people’s fraction of the fracture on the left of the senate democrats, because it is important that they will not give them hundreds of billions of dollars for health benefits for illegal aliens.” He said.
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However, when Schumer talks to Fox Business on Wednesday morning, “The American people are completely and completely on our side. They do not want health services to disappear.”
And the White House and Congress Republicans claimed that they refused to talk to us. The American people should come and talk unconditionally because they suffered. Health services are mixed. “
FOX News’ Alex Miller contributed to this story




