You’d think.

Yesterday:

Senator Eric Schmitt
[October 1, 2025]

Day one of the Schumer Shutdown: Democrats continue to choose petty politics over the American people.
[….]

Some of the responses:

Y’all COULD vote by simple majority to END THE FILIBUSTER, and then pass your own CR – but you don’t WANT to – that’d take away your scapegoat…

What are you doing for affordable health insurance for all Americans?

that is what this shutdown is all about. The MAGA party wants to make it unaffordable. They always tear things apart and no solutions. Health insurance premiums in this country know no party lines, we are all impacted.

The republicans are allowing the subsidies for the public that help people get affordable health insurance to expire. When they expire everyone getting insurance through the ACA will have their premiums DOUBLE or more. Basically it makes the ACA useless to help people afford health insurance. That’s what the Democrats are fighting the Republicans to keep.

He’s going on Faux news and telling lies.

Its simple, compromise to fund Healthcare for American citizens. Truly America First. Or, is that just a slogan that you don’t mean?

They NEVER meant it.

Fellow Americans do your research on what’s at stake;
Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA, 1986)
Requires hospitals that accept Medicare to provide emergency care to anyone, regardless of citizenship, immigration status, or ability to pay.
This is why undocumented immigrants cannot be denied emergency treatment.
Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA, 1996)
This welfare reform law explicitly bars undocumented immigrants from most federal public benefits, including Medicaid, Medicare, and welfare programs.
It carved out only limited emergency Medicaid access for life-threatening situations.
Affordable Care Act (ACA, 2010)
Specifically excludes undocumented immigrants from buying insurance through the federal Marketplace and from receiving subsidies.

Do you really think we believe you? Cuz we don’t lol

N’ah, bro…that never happened. Did you shit this out with your morning coffee?

I will Vote for Presdient Trump each year

Slept through civics classes in school.

Yeah, that’s not what’s happening. Try looking to the voters needs. No illegal gets free shit. But I’m a senior that faces cuts snd higher costs due to increasing cuts to.my services. I paid into this system for 60years and now you expect me to keep paying more.

A 6th grade reading test should be a requirement to become a registered voter

Or a senator, apparently.

So the democrats that don’t control anything have the power to shut it all down? Are you getting paid?

You were a liar here in Missouri, and you still are. We know you know this is a lie, you moron.

THE SAME PARTY THAT CLAIMS TO BE PRO-LIFE doesn’t want to provide affordable healthcare. how is that pro-life?

Ripping millions from affordable Healthcare while doubling premiums… petty. 🤦‍♂️

Argentina is getting $20 billion.

Liar! You want to remove the assistance that people are getting from ACA. Under MAGA (the GOP no longer exists except in name only), their health care will no longer be available or so expensive they can’t afford it.
Your healthcare is FREE!
This is a MAGA shutdown and you know it, but will not admit it. The shutdown in 2019 was under Trump with the GOP controlling both houses. That didn’t work out then and cost taxpayers billions.
Work at finding a resolution by working with the Democrats. They were there and ready and MAGA was not.

Petty politics? Protecting healthcare is petty politics?
Go to hell Mr. “We are a white christian (Lincoln was wrong) nation.”

This on the Republicans not the Democrats!

Y’all think Americans are stupid, huh?

Yes. This has been another episode of Short Answers to Simple Questions.

Holy shit you think everyone is fuckin stupid
You own the government. It’s YOUR shutdown, Dumbfuck

That be the Republicans.

Quit telling lies, Eric.

It’s the trump shutdown you fascist collaborator.

I see like a beautiful GOP ass kisser, you’re posting exactly what you were told. How pathetic. You’re supposed to be working for your constituents, not lying to them. History will remember you people.

GOP House, GOP Senate, GOP exec, GOP shutdown.

Yeah…who in Missouri needs affordable Healthcare anyway???

Fighting to restore ACA subsidies cut by Republicans is hardly petty.

Keep embarrassing yourself, Schmitt.

And republicans are trying to take away programs that help the neediest families so they can support tax breaks for the rich. Same old story. Why did the republicans run away without settling the budget?

You are a liar

Yeah, Medicare cuts are petty politics! 🤣

Republicans are so pro life, they’ll do anything to keep you from being able to afford healthcare.

Hogwash!! Republicans erroneously believe because they control the house, the senate and the White House, that governance (negotiating to make deals) is not required as they attempt to shove their agenda down the throats of Americans. Clearly, republicans don’t have the nuggets to refuse to “kiss the ring” but democrats do.

Republicans control the White House the Senate and Congress. Yet you’re blaming Schumer? It’s because you don’t want to own what’s going to happen next. Own it you did it. And stop lying

Eric, I’m curious, for what did you sell us out? Did they promise you your own little kingdom? US citizens are going to pay a heavy price for that. Do you recall reading, ” For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? ” Mark 8:36.

“A shutdown means the president is weak.” -Donald Trump

No…you own this!

Undocumented immigrants are not entitled to the health care benefits demanded by the Democrats, and the party hasn’t called for this to be changed.
Vance will know this, and several journalists subsequently point it out to him. However, that doesn’t stop the vice president from repeating the statement several times.
Like him, other Republicans are doing the same in these first hours of the shutdown. True to the motto that the most important goal of the government shutdown is to exploit it for their own purposes. But the force with which the Trump administration has responded to the government shutdown from day one suggests that the current escalation is part of a precise, larger plan.
Republicans will stop at nothing when it comes to dismantling the government.

Nope. It’s the GOP shutdown. Y’all can spin it all you like.

So, Trump is continuing construction of his 250 million dollar ballroom while troops go without PAY???

Petty? To us commoners healthcare or lack of it can mean keeping our job and home or losing it all.

This is on the rebublicans. You have to actually show up to negotiate and vote. Your fellow R’s were out fundraising vs working. You are a pathetic politician

Funny how you call it the Schumer shutdown but all the Democrats are in DC waiting for you Republicans to come back and negotiate with them. You do realize that to negotiate means to talk about the differences and come to a mutual agreement. If you refuse to even talk to them, YOU own the shutdown.

Healthcare isn’t petty.

Better than choosing petty billionaires over the American people.

It’s a Republican shutdown, you piece of shit.

Republicans only like tax cuts for billionaires. You can’t give tax breaks to the rest of us.

The republicans refused to come to the table.
They just want to blame the democrats.
Republicans do not care for their constituents, they just want to line the pockets of of their cronies

You spelled “GOP Shutdown” wrong.