The Stack: John Fetterman Breaks with Democrats on Filibuster as Shutdown Drags into Week Three
The government shutdown has stretched into its third week, exposing deep divisions in Washington and even within the Democratic Party. Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania has surprised many by calling for Republicans to use the so-called “nuclear option” to end the Senate filibuster for funding bills. Once a tool Democrats vowed to eliminate, the filibuster now benefits them as they block efforts to reopen the government.
Todd Huff explains that under current Senate rules, most legislation needs 60 votes to advance — giving the minority power to stall any spending measure. Fetterman admits that Democrats “ran on killing the filibuster” but now “love it” because it serves their interests. Todd argues that the shutdown rests squarely on Chuck Schumer and Senate Democrats, who could end the standoff immediately by allowing a vote.
Meanwhile, Bernie Sanders faced rare pushback on The View, where co-host Sarah Haines questioned why Congress continues to get paid while federal workers do not. Even Sanders agreed it was a fair point.
Todd concludes that this crisis isn’t about procedure — it’s about accountability. “They can end this tomorrow,” he says, “if Democrats choose truth over political theater.”
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📝 Transcript: John Fetterman Breaks with Democrats on Filibuster as Shutdown Drags into Week Three
The Todd Huff Show – October 22, 2025
Host: Todd Huff
Todd Huff: All right, my friends, should the filibuster come to an end here? For the government shutdown purposes. Senator John Fetterman, a Democrat out there, saying that it should—that could actually change things quite a bit. I want to talk about that today. I also want to talk a little bit about Bernie Sanders being on The View. The View actually said something that mattered and was actually correct, my friends—it’s an absolutely astonishing thing.
Todd Huff: And kind of, I guess, called Bernie Sanders out. I want to play that clip, time permitting, here. We got this discussion about the—well, I would say—the outrage. Add it to the list of things that the left is outraged about: Trump’s White House ballroom project, which demolition has begun, or I guess the phase that sets up the next phase of construction, so they’re outraged about that. We’ll get to that as well, including some history of things that have happened at the White House.
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Todd Huff: Okay, here we go. Let’s get to the story, the news of the day, my friends. We’re on day number—what is it—22, October 22, day 22 of the Schumer shutdown. Now, I’ve gone through this extensively. I don’t want to repeat it every time, but I have to set it up a little bit because we may have new listeners who just need a little bit of context.
Todd Huff: We might just need a little bit of a refresher. Personally, just as we get into the frame of thinking about this particular issue—yes, Republicans have control of the House of Representatives, yes, Republicans have control of the Senate, and yes, Republicans have control of the White House. That matters in some areas, but not in all areas.
Todd Huff: That matters in the Senate—that matters the least because of something called the filibuster. That might be an oversimplistic way of framing it, but for the sake of this discussion and the sake of time, the filibuster—just because you have a majority, a control of the Senate chamber—it does not mean that you have the ability to do whatever your party wants just because you have the majority.
Todd Huff: Because of this little rule called the filibuster rule. And the filibuster rule requires a three-fifths supermajority to end debate on a topic before bringing it to a vote on the Senate floor. It still only requires a majority vote to pass legislation, but there’s a three-fifths supermajority that prevents something from actually getting to the floor of the Senate for a vote.
Todd Huff: And so that’s the problem here in the Senate with the shutdown. So Republicans have 53 senators, a majority. Democrats and independents who caucus with the Democrats are in the minority at 47. But because they don’t have less than 40 or less, Republicans still need help from the Democrats to get things done in the U.S. Senate.
Todd Huff: And so one of those folks that sometimes votes with Republicans—certainly not all the time, but who does in some instances—is John Fetterman, a Democrat from the Pennsylvania Commonwealth—Commonwealth? State of Pennsylvania. But Fetterman’s out there saying that—this is according to, I think, a Fox News article yesterday—Senator John Fetterman, Democrat, Pennsylvania, said he would support Republicans using, quote, “the nuclear option.”
Todd Huff: You may have heard this term used before—it’s a little dramatic. The nuclear option. I mean, my goodness, nuclear warfare. We all know what that does. We’ve all seen the nuclear tests. We’ve all seen and know the history, a little bit anyway, about the destruction and the capability of these weapons—but it’s called the nuclear option as though it’s some dramatic, just extreme event.
Todd Huff: You’re dropping a nuke metaphorically on Washington, D.C., I guess, if you get rid of the filibuster for select reasons. That’s what we’re supposed to believe, but Fetterman’s out there saying that this is something that would make sense. In fact, he added this quote, he said, “We ran on killing the filibuster.” Now talking about Democrats—“We now love it.”
Todd Huff: He said, “We now love it. We’ve campaigned on getting rid of it, and now we love it because it’s actually favoring what we’re trying to do.” And Fetterman says, look, this should not be a tool that’s being used by Democrats in the Senate to keep the government shut down. And that, my friends, he’s exactly right.
Todd Huff: First of all, he’s analyzed and assessed the problem, right? The problem is that it is a Schumer shutdown. It is a Democrat shutdown. Yes, Rand Paul will not vote for these continuing resolutions, as he hasn’t in this particular case, but the other 52 Republicans have. So the problem are the 47 Democrats and the one vote of Rand Paul.
Todd Huff: I at least understand where Rand Paul is coming from. Rand Paul is trying to get spending under control. And every time there’s a spending bill that he thinks spends too much money, he’s going to oppose it. I understand and appreciate a part of that—I do. I also understand that this has to be a multiple-step process.
Todd Huff: If we’re going to negotiate now, this government’s going to stay shut down for a long time—and that’s not a good thing. Listen, the longer this goes on, the more pain that people feel, the more difficulties that arise. But, I mean, we’ve gone, what, three weeks now? And I would say, by and large, the average American hasn’t really felt any difference.
Todd Huff: And I remember again when this was kind of a bigger thing that people were more concerned about, say six, seven, eight, ten years ago—this really got people in a frenzy. The government’s going to be shut down. They’ve lost all of that. I mean, yes, the radical left is still terrified because their politicians stir them into a frenzy.
Todd Huff: By the way, that’s the subject of today’s Todd Talk if you want to listen to that—that’s in the newsletter or on our website if you want to take a listen. But most people are realizing that our government still, by and large, operates—at least for three weeks—with a government shutdown underway. So now, that doesn’t minimize, again, the pain of people who are being impacted by this.
Todd Huff: People who are not getting paid currently, people who are businesses who aren’t getting paid, employees who aren’t getting paid or who are furloughed or whatever else—and those are real things. I saw that there was an article, at least anyway, headline said that—was it 42 million Americans are in danger of losing at least temporary access to food stamps?
Todd Huff: I don’t know to what degree that again is reality versus fear-mongering, but those stories are at least starting to come out, and some of these things are legitimately beginning to happen. As we venture into largely uncharted territory, this becomes one of the longest shutdowns that we’ve ever experienced.
Todd Huff: And Fetterman’s out here saying, look, there is a logical and simple way to fix this problem. And that logical and simple way is to change the rules for the filibuster so that we don’t have a filibuster keeping the government shut down. And they call this the nuclear option—I think that’s super dramatic—but that’s what they call it.
Todd Huff: So what would have to happen? Let me paint the picture as I understand it. After researching this and trying to find a simple way to explain this, let’s go through the mechanics of the filibuster—which we’ll do here, my friends, in just a moment.
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Todd Huff: All right, now let’s look at the nuclear option, as they call it in the Senate, which would basically mean ending the filibuster selectively for appropriations bills or these continuing resolutions, however it could be specifically defined. Let’s just kind of walk through what that process would look like just to kind of explain what Fetterman means.
Todd Huff: So what would happen is a funding bill fails to reach 60 votes for cloture—that’s under Senate Rule 22. Cloture is basically a vote to end the filibuster, to end debate on a particular bill. So they bring a bill to the floor of the Senate, which they’ve done before; they just haven’t taken these next steps.
Todd Huff: So you bring this to the Senate, and it fails to reach 60 votes. They fail to invoke cloture. The bill is prevented from a final vote, which blocks it from actually passing the Senate. This is where we stand right now. This is where they’re not getting traction.
Todd Huff: This could all change if the rule changed. Now, there’s concern about changing the rule because the filibuster is something both sides—especially in a very tightly contested U.S. Senate, where one party might lead by a couple of seats in one particular Congress and then in the next Congress another party might lead by a couple of others—it’s very close in many instances.
Todd Huff: And so the party who’s not in power likes the filibuster because it prevents some new policies from being enacted by the Senate that the party that’s not in power—that they oppose, that they don’t want to see implemented in our nation.
Todd Huff: Now this, I think, has been abused. This has been abused. This was used to stop judges from getting appointed and so forth. This was threatened to be used—I don’t know if it was ever—I know that there was—the nuclear option was invoked for Supreme Court justices. So basically, you can’t filibuster a Supreme Court justice.
Todd Huff: So there still is a filibuster rule, but there are exceptions for what the filibuster can be used for. And generally speaking, it can be used for virtually everything except for a couple of these exceptions, including a Supreme Court justice vote. So in this case, what would have to happen is the bill would have to go to the Senate—it doesn’t reach 60 votes.
Todd Huff: A senator could raise a point of order asserting that the appropriations bill should require only a simple majority to close debates, not be subjected to the filibuster. The presiding officer, the parliamentarian, would rule that the motion was out of order, because that’s what it is—if this is all procedure, this is just like triggering the process.
Todd Huff: So the parliamentarian is going to say, look, that’s out of order. We’re following the rules. This has to have a 60-vote threshold. The majority then appeals the ruling of the chair, and then the parliamentarian makes the ruling, which is correct. The majority would then appeal that ruling.
Todd Huff: Then, if a simple majority at that point could vote to overturn the ruling of the chair, a new precedent is established by removing that 60-vote requirement—that filibuster requirement—for that category of legislation. Then the Senate can invoke cloture, pass the measure with a simple majority vote. So Fetterman is saying that’s what needs to happen.
Todd Huff: That, by the way, is called the nuclear option, which, again, is so dramatic, right? It’s so dramatic. There’s nothing in the Constitution that says that there must be a filibuster. These are agreed-upon rules, and both parties have, by and large, kept the filibuster intact with certain limitations, and this might be one that the Republicans institute here again.
Todd Huff: Another example that I’m aware of right now, at the moment, sitting here, is the Supreme Court justices. You can’t filibuster. You can’t filibuster Supreme Court justices. I don’t think you can filibuster lower court justices anymore either, because these are tactics that are used, right? So the party—so here’s the thing.
Todd Huff: The filibuster in philosophy—philosophically—I understand the idea. The idea is that it is a mechanism that says, we want a tool that says we don’t just want some of these key changes to our society to be squeaked through, to just eke through the Senate because one party has a one-vote majority or whatever.
Todd Huff: And so we want to have some requirement that says a little bit larger percentage of the Senate would be required to go along with these changes—to give their stamp of approval. We don’t want big changes to come by these razor-thin margins.
Todd Huff: That’s kind of the thinking behind it. And it would force more—maybe more cooperation and negotiation between the parties, more bipartisanship. Whatever you think of that, I’m just telling you the thinking that leads to the filibuster. The filibuster is really designed to be something that prevents—sort of—I don’t know, a safety net, if you will.
Todd Huff: I don’t like that term, but a safety net that says here are some things that the Senate—it’s going to be harder to pass through the Senate. You’re going to need more support for this. Again, not just something that can eke on through. You’re going to want something that the majority—more than the majority—are actually on board with, which could require some changes.
Todd Huff: Which could mean that the legislation that’s being passed through the Senate is going to be more moderate and less—I’ll say extreme, more partisan—because there’s a mechanism by which the party who’s not in power can kind of impact what these things look like by using the filibuster.
Todd Huff: And so if they’re not clearly something that’s popular amongst the U.S. Senate, who, of course, represent the people in the states of this country, then there’s a mechanism by which the party that’s not in power can prevent big changes from happening to our government simply because they don’t have control of that particular chamber.
Todd Huff: Now, it’s being wielded, in many cases, as a tool to throw the wrench in the gears. And this is something that we see when Trump, of course, is president. We see this happen in other examples, too. But basically, the philosophy of the left when Trump is president is that they’re staging a permanent sit-in.
Todd Huff: They are going to put their heels in the ground. They’re going to throw their temper tantrums. They’re going to oppose everything. They’re going to make everything take as long as possible. They want it to be hard for him to get his cabinet appointed. They want it to be hard for him to do anything that he wants to do because the harder it is, the more political capital it takes to move the ball.
Todd Huff: The more it grinds things to a halt. I mean, Trump has big vision—a big view of the things he wants to get done. That’s why you see all these fights. That’s why you see the fights regarding the National Guard and so forth. The Democrats just have a position: if Trump is for it, we’re against it, and we’re going to use strategically what we’re going to do.
Todd Huff: The Democrats would say, we’re going to use the political capital we have and spend it all, invest it all into driving fear and paranoia about Trump—that’s where these “No Kings” protests come from. They want to see people out in the streets. They want to see people out there protesting just anything about Trump that they can possibly get them to protest.
Todd Huff: They want to see them—the average person—angry at Trump. They want to see hatred towards Trump. They want to see rage towards Trump and towards conservatives, and they’re going to put their heels in the ground and prevent anything from happening in Washington, D.C. That’s what they’re doing.
Todd Huff: It’s politically a strategy, but it’s also something that they’re going to have to be accountable for at some point. Again, I talked about this in today’s Todd Talk. There’s some research done, focus groups done, where Democrats are very, very critical of their own political party—having some bad things to say about them, realizing some things that I just said to you.
Todd Huff: They’re beginning to realize that this is the party that’s just opposing everything, that’s angry, that’s woke, that’s disconnected. I talk about that in the Todd Talk, but this is all, at some point, they’re going to have to become politically responsible for this. And these are the decisions they’re having to make.
Todd Huff: What they’re deciding is, look, if we go along here, if we don’t oppose everything, if we don’t put our heels in, Trump is going to steamroll us. Trump is going to further do things that are on his agenda that we greatly oppose, that candidly put our party at risk.
Todd Huff: I mean, listen, whatever you want to say about it, you at least have to answer the question: why are the Democrats so upset about people who aren’t supposed to be here actually facing—well, justice by being deported for breaking U.S. law? What is it that’s so troubling about that?
Todd Huff: And the hard truth to that question—the truthful answer there—is that that is part of their political strategy. Listen, they depend on illegal immigration to do a lot of things, including impact elections, my friends, including to impact the census, right? These folks are counted in the population. It makes no sense at all to me.
Todd Huff: But anyway, there’s a lot at stake for them. And I’ll say a little bit more about this after the break, but I got to take a timeout here—long in this segment, my friend. Sit tight. Back in just a minute.
Todd Huff: Welcome back, my friends. Just talking about John Fetterman, the Democrat senator from the state of Pennsylvania, talking about his call out there that Republicans end the filibuster—initiate what is called the very dramatic “nuclear option,” which basically means continuing resolutions, bills, funding bills that—well, if they aren’t passed—lead to government shutdowns.
Todd Huff: Republicans can say filibuster doesn’t apply to this. You still keep the filibuster for other things, but we’re not going to be held hostage here by the Democrat Party because they will not cooperate. This is logically sound. By the way, that’s exactly what’s going on, no matter what AOC and Jasmine Crockett and Bernie Sanders and Chuck Schumer, Chris Murphy, and all these other leftists in the Senate—in Congress in general—are out there telling us.
Todd Huff: They’re banking on their voters to be ignorant of what I’m telling you today. They’re banking on the fact that their voters don’t even know what the filibuster is, how it applies. They don’t know anything about what I shared with you in the first segment, and they’re happy to keep their voters ignorant and in the dark.
Todd Huff: Because it gives them a talking point. Because, remember, what they’re trying to do here—the needle they’re trying to thread—is to blame Republicans for this without bearing responsibility for throwing childish temper tantrums and simply causing government not to function.
Todd Huff: And to help further their cause, they demonize the conservatives, the Republicans, particularly Trump, try to make him out to be the worst human being in the history of the world so that they can be justified and defended by people on the left. And of course, you got these people going out there and protesting “No Kings.”
Todd Huff: It’s so stupid to me, but it works for a fraction of this population, and that’s why—listen, I actually want to reach those folks. I understand that there is a percentage of people who have abdicated their responsibilities personally to think and make decisions and to come to grips with reality.
Todd Huff: I understand that. They want to have a certain type of existence. They think that the Democrats can provide that existence—that type of lifestyle for them, funding things for free, justifying all behavior that they engage in, even if it’s morally bankrupt, and call all behavior morally equivalent.
Todd Huff: They like that side of the Democrat Party. They’ll go along with anything because they’ve sold their soul to that system of belief. They’ve rejected truth. They’ve rejected personal responsibility. They don’t want to have to think about things and come to conclusions that, well, that challenge their core beliefs.
Todd Huff: And so there’s a group of those folks, but there’s another group of people who have just been lied to, deceived. They’ve listened to the mainstream media their entire lives. They’ve attended universities or public education schools and so forth that have taught them a bunch of liberal propaganda and junk.
Todd Huff: This dovetails nicely into what I call the seven pillars of propaganda. It’s why the left have taken over what I call seven key or seven key aspects of our society—pillars of this society—where they have leftists in control who are controlling the messaging of these pillars.
Todd Huff: And it works, right? It works for a lot of people. It works for people that aren’t independent thinkers. It works for people who get some sort of peer pressure from these pillars who determine what’s hip and cool and all that sort of stuff. And these pillars include things like academia. It includes the government.
Todd Huff: It includes woke business. It includes science, right? That’s what it includes. Dr. Fauci—a great example, right? You have people singing songs about getting vaccinated. I go back and I see some of these videos or things that were done during the time of COVID, and they were mind-boggling to me at the time.
Todd Huff: But even with the stepping away from just being in that garbage at the time, I look at this and I think, how in the world—was it Stephen Colbert? He had a whole, like, kind of looked like a Broadway production of people singing about getting vaccinated on his show, like we’re watching Sesame Street.
Todd Huff: And see, to someone like me and many people like you, watching Stephen Colbert’s show—if we ever did—that felt a lot more like watching Sesame Street as a child. It felt more like, listen, and I’m not saying Sesame Street is bad—I know the whole PBS angle and public funding and all that. I’m not criticizing Sesame Street.
Todd Huff: But they use the same—it’s one thing to use Sesame Street to help kids learn basic facts about life. It’s another thing to use a Sesame Street-like production to try to issue propaganda, initiate propaganda on the American people to buy into your pathetic worldview—and that’s what they do.
Todd Huff: It’s silly. It’s infantile. It works for a lot of people, but I want people to hear the truth. That’s the mission of this program. We want to help people hear and receive truth. I say we don’t have it all figured out—I certainly understand why you might think that we do here on this—(laughs)—I’m kidding, by the way.
Todd Huff: But we have a lot of truth that we have had revealed to us, that we have learned over the course of time, and we had better proclaim that truth. Otherwise, when we don’t, we see what happens. We see what happens. You have people who fall for the, well, for the narrative of COVID and the dancing singers with white coats on telling them to get vaccinated and all this stuff.
Todd Huff: We see what happens when you have a lot of people in this country who think it’s okay for biological men to play sports against biological females in high school. And then they’ll tell you that men can have babies. What is wrong? Men cannot have babies.
Todd Huff: When I was growing up—when I was growing up in this country—the idea that I would have to tell adults on a radio program, podcast—and I know I’m not telling you, but I’m telling anyone out there who believes this garbage, who happens to be tuning in—the idea that I would have to proclaim, make a statement as obvious as this, was mind-boggling.
Todd Huff: That men cannot have babies. That would be something that would have had to be said in 2025—five-year-old Todd would have been truly confounded by that situation, and I’m guessing many of you would be as well. This is what happens. These are the sorts of things that happen when truth is rejected, truth is not spoken, and the lies are perpetrated.
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Todd Huff: So this is what the left depends upon—they depend upon the pillars of society to lie to their base, to keep them in the dark, to keep them misled and deceived, to keep them from understanding, to program them through public education on how to think. Not—well, I shouldn’t say it—it’s really what, the thing, not actually how to think independently.
Todd Huff: They want to program you. This is what you do—you go in, you take tests, you mark in your little scantron or whatever they’ve got today out there—that’s what they had when I was a kid. You mark the right answer, you don’t ask any questions, you move on. We’re going to program you to do what it is we want you to do.
Todd Huff: And listen, I’m not saying, especially in certain fields, there are things that are black and white, but a lot of fields—I would say every field to some degree, in some fields completely—there’s the need to question and to debate and to find the best idea, especially if you’re in something like a liberal arts and sciences program.
Todd Huff: If you’re in politics, or philosophy, social sciences—if you’re in some of those fields, I mean, you’ve got to argue for certain truths to be known and for those truths to be defended. And we have one side that’s pushed almost exclusively on students across the country. That’s where Turning Point USA—that’s where they were trying to get in there and provide an alternative viewpoint.
Todd Huff: One that’s rooted in truth, one that’s designed to help people come to grips with reality, not live in a fantasy world. The left depends upon voters living in a fantasy world to enable them to do what they’re doing. Fetterman here says let’s put an end to the shutdown by eliminating the filibuster rule for this type of continuing resolution.
Todd Huff: This is silly. Democrats bear the responsibility here. They’re the ones that are blocking the clean resolutions from passing the Senate, which would put an end to this shutdown immediately. Kudos to Senator Fetterman for saying something that makes sense and for standing up and opposing the radical leadership of his party.
Todd Huff: I have to take a break, though, my friend. Sit tight. Listening here to Conservative, Not Bitter talk. I’m your host, Todd Huff. Back in just a minute.
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Todd Huff: All right, I’m going to get to talking about the shutdown here. Bernie Sanders—he was on The View. Bernie Sanders was on The View. We play sound bites from The View from time to time. Normally, when I play a sound bite from The View, I have to say how ridiculous it is coming out of the mouths of the ladies on The View.
Todd Huff: Here’s an example—I don’t know the last time I’ve said this, but I’m going to say this: at least Sara Haines—Sara Haines on The View, who says ridiculous things from time to time—don’t misunderstand me, I’m not telling you that she’s got these things figured out—but she’s stumbled onto something here that’s good and accurate and true.
Todd Huff: And she said it on The View to none other than the nutty professor, Bernie Sanders himself. Listen, there’s a lot of things—it’s not personal with Bernie. Bernie’s an interesting guy to me, but he’s insane. His ideas are atrocious and, dare I say, dangerous for this great nation.
Todd Huff: But Bernie’s on The View, and he’s actually—he’s talking about the shutdown, and Sara Haines raises this question, which is a very sound way of thinking, and Bernie has to basically agree with her in saying that she’s right—and I guess you could say the Democrat Party is wrong—in a rare moment of clarity for the women of The View.
Todd Huff: Here we go. Bernie Sanders and Sara Haines here talking about this government shutdown.
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Sara Haines: Powerful, though, is if Congress didn’t take their money. Well, they were waiting because right now it’s hard to imagine it’s incentivized. It’s easier for the politicians in D.C. to go away from each other and say, “We will win this,” while people are losing their paychecks.
Sara Haines: If Congress just said, “We’re not going to take our paychecks until we figure this out,” that would be a noble step in the right direction, I would say.
Bernie Sanders: That’s not—everybody can afford to do—you got some young people there with kids there—
Sara Haines: Either can the people that aren’t getting paid, though. I think that’s a fair one.
Bernie Sanders: I think that’s a fair point.
Todd Huff: That’s right. Bernie says, I think it’s a fair point. Sara Haines says, listen, people aren’t getting paychecks who are working for the government. You know, there are other people who might have contracts, but this might cause a lot of problems for people who are getting some check—legitimate check.
Todd Huff: I’m not saying government handout, but a check for services rendered from the government—you’re not getting paid if you’re employees. There might be problems if you’re a contractor or whatever—all sorts of issues like this. She says, instead of going home and, you know, just arguing about it there, going out and stomping in your districts and so forth, why don’t you stay there?
Todd Huff: Why don’t you say you’re not going to get paid? See, to me, she’s hit the nail on the head here. She’s hit the nail on the head in one respect. I mean, she still wants to say both parties have to come together. So the obvious, as I’ve gone through countless times and I’m candidly tired of it—it’s 100% the Democrats’ fault.
Todd Huff: It is. This one is 100% the Democrats’ fault. They could have continued September 30 funding on October 1 without any changes, and they refused. They refused to do it. And so they shut the government down over it because of the filibuster.
Todd Huff: And so Sara Haines is saying, look, why should Congress get paid? I mean, think about it—they’re the last. These are the last jokers. Both parties—I don’t care even at this point who you signed up for this—if you’re a member of Congress, you shouldn’t get paid.
Todd Huff: Why are we paying anybody, or why is no one else getting paid in some circumstances? Other people aren’t getting paid, but you are. See, to me, when you’re the one that controls this, you’re the one absolutely who should not get paid first. You’re the one that this should hit, I would say, first and most dramatically.
Todd Huff: You’re the one who actually can solve this problem. And Bernie says, you know, look, we have some members of Congress who can’t endure not getting a paycheck. And Sara Haines says, hello—what about the people who are working in the federal government who aren’t getting paid?
Todd Huff: The same can be said for them. Bernie says that’s a fair point. Well, no kidding, it’s a fair point. You guys caused it. Bernie Sanders, you are part of the problem. You are, in this case, quite literally the reason people aren’t getting paid, and you’re trying to get political points off of this—all while telling us you’re out there fighting for the working class.
Todd Huff: This is pathetic. It’s sad. It’s just pure sophistry. They are lying straight through their teeth. You know, I used to think Bernie was a principled little socialist. Listen, this is a lie. There’s no way around this. They are responsible. They’re the ones that are keeping people from getting paid while still collecting their checks.
Todd Huff: They think that they can’t handle not getting paid, but the rest of the world doesn’t have to get a check—even though it’s their fault. I’ve got to go. Out of time. SDG.
