Senate Democrats voted to shut down the government for the 10th time Thursday, ensuring more paychecks will be lost and services unfunded. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) even brought up bipartisan legislation that would have funded the armed forces, an appropriations bill that passed committee on a bipartisan 26-3 vote, but Democrats voted against it, too. The party of the Left is now on record denying paychecks to our men and women in uniform unless the nation agrees to their ransom demands and extends temporary COVID-19 emergency funding indefinitely into the future.

Democrats continue to insist, however, that the shutdown is the Republicans’ fault since, according to Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), “They have the presidency, they have the Senate, they have the House, so they’re in charge.”