Democratic leaders vowed on Wednesday to take their message to the American people that the blame for the shutdown crisis lies solely with Donald Trump and the Republicans and their attacks on healthcare provisions, as the US entered the first government shutdown in almost seven years. Republicans squarely blamed their political opponents.
Chuck Schumer, the Democratic minority leader in the US Senate, said his party would fight on several fronts including “TV stations, social media, in picketing, in protesting, every way” to drive the party’s point home. In an interview on MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Wednesday, he said: “We’re going to say, ‘Go tell Trump he’s the one doing it.’ That’s our plan.”
