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Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., accused the Democratic Social gathering of being taken over by far-left “Marxists” on Day 16 of the federal authorities shutdown.
The chief of the Home of Representatives was visibly pissed off whereas talking to reporters on Thursday, accusing Senate Minority Chief Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and different Democrat leaders of prolonging the fiscal standoff for political acquire.
“This isn’t your grandfather’s Democratic Social gathering. It actually has develop into the far-left, Marxist-left, which might be working that complete operation. And it has actual results on actual folks,” Johnson stated.
Senate Democrats have now rejected Republicans’ federal funding plan 10 occasions.
JOHNSON RAISES STAKES ON SCHUMER AS GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN BARRELS INTO WEEK 3
Speaker Mike Johnson canceled Home votes for a 3rd straight week in a bid to place strain on Senate Minority Chief Chuck Schumer throughout the federal government shutdown. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP Picture; Allison Robbert/AP Picture)
Republicans put ahead final month a seven-week extension of fiscal yr (FY) 2025 funding ranges, referred to as a unbroken decision (CR), aimed toward giving congressional negotiators extra time to strike a long-term deal for FY2026.
However Democrats within the Home and Senate have been infuriated by being sidelined in these talks. Schumer and Home Minority Chief Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., stated their caucuses wouldn’t settle for any deal that doesn’t embrace severe healthcare concessions, at the very least extending COVID-19 pandemic-era Obamacare subsidies which might be set to run out on the finish of this yr.
Johnson and Republicans have accused Schumer of kowtowing to strain by progressives after he was key to serving to the identical funding invoice cross the Senate in March, avoiding a shutdown earlier this yr. That transfer noticed Schumer face a barrage of assaults from his left flank.
SCREAMING MATCH ERUPTS BETWEEN HAKEEM JEFFRIES, MIKE LAWLER AS GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN CHAOS CONTINUES
Sen. Majority Chief John Thune speaks with reporters close to his workplace on Capitol Hill in Washington, Sept. 18, 2025. (Mariam Zuhaib/AP Picture)
“The one clarification for that is that Chuck Schumer doesn’t wish to face the warmth and the scrutiny and the abuse that he took in March for doing the proper, accountable factor by the far-left voices in his social gathering,” Johnson stated.
He stated the “voices of the social gathering” have been Democratic socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and progressive Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., in addition to New York Metropolis mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani.
“Look, Mamdani is on a path, shockingly, sadly, frighteningly, to develop into the elected mayor of the biggest metropolis in America, the once-cradle of capitalism. There’s a Marxist rise within the Democratic Social gathering,” Johnson stated.
“The previous guard — and I am saying previous guard, Chuck Schumer has been right here for 44 years — he isn’t the flavour of the month, and he is aware of that he will get a problem. If it isn’t AOC, it will be one other disciple of Mamdani or someone like that.”
New York Metropolis Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani speaks throughout an interview on “The Story with Martha MacCallum” on Fox Information in New York Metropolis, Oct. 15, 2025. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
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He stated Democrats “have to face for the farthest left concepts, socialism, communism, Marxism, proper now to be in favor within the Democratic Social gathering.”
Schumer, in flip, has criticized Johnson for his choice to maintain the Home in recess whereas the Senate’s fiscal standoff continues.
“Republican leaders, particularly Speaker Johnson, proceed to dig in. The speaker has now stored the Home Republicans on trip for 3 weeks, as if they will make the difficulty go away by letting Home Republicans conceal. Nicely, the American folks haven’t got time for Republican inaction,” Schumer stated Wednesday.
