Republicans Try To Distance Themselves From Trump’s Government Shutdown

Now that the government shutdown has ended, at least temporarily, Republicans in Congress have been doing everything possible to rewrite history and pretend that they weren’t a part of it. Multiple Republicans have tweeted out that the shutdown was the fault of the Democrats, while others went on the Sunday morning talk shows to try to downplay what actually happened. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.

Become a member today!

Support us by becoming a monthly patron on Patreon, and help keep progressive media alive!

Spread the word! LIKE and SHARE this video or leave a comment to help direct attention to the stories that matter. And SUBSCRIBE to stay connected with Ring of Fire's video content!

Support Ring of Fire by subscribing to our YouTube channel

Be sociable! Follow us on:

Follow more of our stories at

Subscribe to our podcast

*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

Well, it's the first Monday following the government reopening this past week, the end of the week. So a lot of furloughed workers are returning to work today, national park starting to reopen after the cleaning process begins. Uh, but what's really interesting is the fact that Republicans over the weekend, we're attempting to distance themselves from the government shutdown that lasted 35 days and became the longest in US history. You had people like Susan Collins and Marco Rubio going on the Sunday talk shows, trying to say, listen, we shouldn't ever shut down the government. It's a bad negotiating tactic. It never works. And usually it hurts the people who instigated it. Uh, you know, that's actually what Marco Rubio said. It hurts the people who instigated it. So Rubio, there is admitting Donald Trump instigated it. Republicans instigated it and they lost big time. So he and Susan Collins are out there saying, look, we shouldn't ever do this again.

This is bad policy. Nobody likes this. Let's, let's move on. And then you have people like Mick Mulvaney, you have Kevin McCarthy, the House minority leader. You have Ted Cruz. Those folks are out there trying to distance themselves from the shutdown in another way. They're actually blaming the Democrats for the shutdown even happening there. Just abdicating all responsibility and saying, look what these Democrats did to you. Ignore the video that's still viral right now with Trump saying he'll own the shutdown and he's going to shut it down and he'll take the blame and it's all on him. Forget that. That even happened. Let's just keep calling it Schumer shut down. In fact, let's make a clever little Hashtag of Schumer shut down, which is what Ted Cruz did. It's what Mick Mulvaney was saying. He said Republicans were the only ones who were trying to bargain seriously here. McCarthy said that Donald Trump was doing a great job with his negotiating tactics.

Yeah, that's not true. None of this is true. Your Guy Lost Your guys shut down the government. Your guy and your party repeatedly refused to take up democratic passed legislation that would have reopened the federal government and given furloughed workers their back pay. That was all you. You did that, but right now what we're witnessing is republicans attempting to rewrite history specifically the last 40 days or so. They want us to think that it was either the Democrats' fault that had happened or that every republican who joined in it really regrets it and they'll never do it again and they've learned their lesson and they're going to move on. The truth is that we're only three weeks away from another government shutdown. The Democrats are not going to budge and they should not budge. Nancy Pelosi, you know, a lot of people had concerns about her becoming how speaker, again, I was one of them and I will freely admit that and I will also freely admit that I guess on this particular issue I was wrong.

#rof #trofire #theringoffire #progressivenews