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Sen. Kennedy Predicts How the Schumer Shutdown Will End
PJ Media ^ | 10/08/2025 | Matt Margolis

Posted on 10/08/2025 9:47:29 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) brought his trademark wit to Fox Business on Tuesday, offering his unique take on how the ongoing government shutdown led by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is likely to end. Kennedy, who has a new book out titled How to Test for Stupid: And Why Washington Never Will , didn’t hold back when discussing the Schumer Shutdown with host Larry Kudlow.

“They want $1.5 trillion to open government back up, Larry,” Kennedy said, referring to Schumer’s demands. “And that’ll happen when donkeys fly backwards. We’re not gonna give in.”

Kennedy explained that the shutdown is purely political, not about policy. “Senator Schumer ... is trying to get the loon wing, the socialist wing of the Democratic Party… which is in control, to love him. And they will never love him. They won’t.”

He suggested that Schumer’s insistence on holding the government hostage is a strategic misstep. “He’d be better off doing what he did back in March and just calling it like he saw it and keeping government open. Because what he’s saying is, ‘We’re gonna keep government shut down until you, the Republicans and President Trump, give the Democrats $1.5 trillion, and they’re gonna tell us how to spend it.’”

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Looking ahead, Kennedy predicted a quiet, behind-the-scenes resolution. “It will end eventually when Senator Schumer goes to six or eight of his members and his Democrats and says, ‘Do me a favor. Vote to open it back up. I may have to criticize you, I’m not gonna vote with you, but I need a way out of this. I need an offering.’ And that’s what’s gonna happen. But he’s gotta be careful because if it looks contrived… he’s boned. And he can’t look like he’s having a mutiny.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: schumer; schumercircus; schumercreepshow; schumerpoopypants; schumerpoppypants; schumershitshow; schumershutdown; senate; shitshow; shutdown

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1 posted on 10/08/2025 9:47:29 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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Kennedy previously revealed on the Senate floor some of the funding priorities that Democrats shut down the government over .

They include $3 million for circumcisions and vasectomies in Zambia, $500,000 for electric buses in Rwanda, and $3.6 million for pastry cooking classes and dance focus groups aimed at male prostitutes in Haiti. He also cited $6 million for media organizations supporting Palestinians, $833,000 for transgender programs in Nepal, $300,000 for a pride parade in Lesotho, $882,000 for social media mentorship in Serbia, and $4.2 million for LGBTQI initiatives across the Western Balkans and Uganda.
2 posted on 10/08/2025 9:48:30 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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Here’s hoping that this attempted shakedown by the demoncRATS will come back and bite them hard on the behind. Putting criminals before the taxpayers is freakin’ unbelievable that the demoncRATS have unmitigated gall to attempt this atrociousness.


3 posted on 10/08/2025 10:11:40 PM PDT by gildafarrell ("No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.")
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Bookmark


4 posted on 10/08/2025 10:16:43 PM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they. control you. )
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To: SeekAndFind

To paraphrase The Hollow Men (1925 poem by T.S. Eliot):

This is the way the shutdown ends
not with a bang but with a whimper
and maybe some passing gas by Schumer. 💨💨💨💨


5 posted on 10/08/2025 10:18:58 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: SeekAndFind

“he’s boned.”

I haven’t seen that term in decades....
Laughing.


6 posted on 10/08/2025 10:20:45 PM PDT by dagunk
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They should fire a million useless bureaucrats to make funds available.


7 posted on 10/08/2025 10:36:09 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism. )
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But he’s gotta be careful because if it looks contrived… he’s boned. And he can’t look like he’s having a mutiny.

"Saving face" isn't just for the Japanese anymore...

Schumer took the Democrats on a kamakaze mission and got banzaid by President Trump.

-PJ

8 posted on 10/08/2025 11:16:00 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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Since they are having trouble with this kind of aid going thru liberal federal agencies programs and grants...


9 posted on 10/08/2025 11:20:38 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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I am not Japanese and I would not let Schumer save face. When Americans FA they FO and own it.


10 posted on 10/08/2025 11:22:30 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: SeekAndFind

And the Dems that break ranks will be ones not up for re-election soon, and/or from super-safe districts.


11 posted on 10/08/2025 11:50:36 PM PDT by FrankRizzo890
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Don’t always gave to agree with him, but he has a way of making one laugh about Congress


12 posted on 10/09/2025 12:12:24 AM PDT by digger48
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That’s how it works


13 posted on 10/09/2025 12:12:51 AM PDT by digger48
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To: SeekAndFind

He’ll tell those who are not running in the next election to vote to open it up...and we’ll give you a nice side job.


14 posted on 10/09/2025 1:16:08 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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With USAID kickbacks ended. the Black Caucus and the Left are starving without their lobster bisque de la vin blanche,
and their condos in Beliz.

They dems are now suffering from a lack of illegal kick back money from their socialist elite Afro dictator friends, so they are shutting down the gub’mint.

SO MUCH WINNING.


15 posted on 10/09/2025 1:24:13 AM PDT by Candor7 (Ask not for whom the Trump Trolls,He trolls for thee!<img src="" width=500</img><a href="">tag</a>) )
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I wish we had a couple dozen more Sen Kennedy’s in the Senate.


16 posted on 10/09/2025 1:38:54 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus….)
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Who wants to save THAT UGLY FACE???


17 posted on 10/09/2025 1:57:21 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion.....the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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$300,000 for a pride parade in Lesotho

my pronouns in Sotho are O and eena…… baa, baa, baa.

🤔🤔, Pride Parade in Lesotho is $1,000 and $299,000 for the Democrats…. Oops, I mean NGO and then $289,000 for the Democrats.

18 posted on 10/09/2025 2:48:01 AM PDT by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show host to me.... Sting)
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To: SeekAndFind

There’s still plenty of time for the Republicans to concede. At least 4 of the longest shutdowns in the last 40 years were ended when the Rs caved. Rs are weak, not cohesive and very much the Uniparty.


19 posted on 10/09/2025 3:02:47 AM PDT by KingLudd
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Get with the Senators of the states Trump removed funding for (ie: NYC $18.1 billion for construction projects) and let them know that their vote will get the withholding of funds lifted.

That should end this.


20 posted on 10/09/2025 3:03:40 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Gary Gilmore the POS who murdered Charlie Kirk!)
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