Senator Chuck Schumer

But.

He's got 50 people in his caucus who very much want it.

And they're the ones who are most vulnerable in the reelection.

Everyone, you know, they want to keep the House Republican.

We want to see the House go Democratic under Hakeem Jefferson.

And so he stuck.

So his decision, what he thought, he would pass a bill without talking to us that didn't address this issue at all and jam us.

And in the House, he can do it because he doesn't need Democratic votes.

But in the Senate, he does.

And they thought they could barrel us into just saying yes.

We have found the American people, our constituents, the people we're supposed to help, feel so strongly and are hurt so badly on this that we said we want to negotiate, and they wouldn't.

And they'd rather shut down the government than help these people.

It's just crazy.

And it's because of the political pickle that Johnson is in.

What's the way out of it?

Trump.

Trump, you know, he's pretty good at the politics of all this, as much as I despise so much of what he's done with his politics.

I mean, I worry about our democracy, but that's a different subject.

We're not going to get to that today.

But Trump has, when Trump backs Johnson...