Democrat Infighting Fuels Government Shutdown
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Sean Hannity
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🗓️ 11 November 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
On this hour of the Sean Hannity Show, the government shutdown and internal Democratic Party power struggles take center stage. Sean frames the ongoing crisis as proof that far-left voices like Zoran Mamdani, AOC, and Jasmine Crockett have sidelined traditional leaders such as Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries, making them "leaders in name only." Guest Senator Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) details the shutdowns real-world impacts, including record flight cancellations and threats to SNAP benefits for 42 million Americans, while slamming Democrats for using health care as political leverage rather than seeking bipartisan solutions. The discussion highlights the Republican push for free-market health innovations against Democrats insistence on expanding programs like Obamacare, making this a pivotal moment in the national debate over government spending, leadership, and the direction of U.S. health care.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | Hour to Sean Hannity Show, 800, 941, Sean is on number. |
| 0:08.0 | If you want to be a part of the program, former House Speaker, Newt Gingrich, you know, blaming, obviously, the ongoing shutdown. |
| 0:16.1 | The radicals have taken over the Democratic Party and blaming Schumer and said Schumer saw this as an opportunity |
| 0:23.1 | to hold the entire country hostage to prove that Democrats could get a supposed win. |
| 0:28.7 | This has been Schumer, his position on government shutdowns, the entire time he's been in the U.S. Senate. |
| 0:36.0 | This is critical to understanding, you know, |
| 0:39.3 | how dominant the, the, the, the, Mondani, AOC wing, Jasmine Crockett, squad wing is, and how |
| 0:46.4 | powerful they are, that Schumer is leader in name only, like Hakeem Jeffrey's leader in name |
| 0:52.3 | only. Listen, what if I persuaded my caucus to say I'm |
| 0:55.4 | going to shut the government down, I'm going to not pay our bills unless I get my way. It's a |
| 1:01.5 | politics of idiocy of confrontation of paralysis. It's sort of like this. Someone goes into your |
| 1:08.1 | house, takes your wife and children hostage, and then says, let's negotiate over the price of your house. |
| 1:13.5 | You know, we could do the same thing on immigration. |
| 1:15.7 | We could, we believe strongly in immigration reform. |
| 1:18.0 | We could say we're shutting down the government. |
| 1:19.9 | We're not going to raise the debt ceiling until you pass immigration reform. |
| 1:23.2 | It would be governmental chaos. |
| 1:25.2 | Speaker McCarthy needs to stop letting the MAGA radicals drive |
| 1:29.0 | his decisions and do the obvious and sensible thing. Follow the Senate's lead and pass a bipartisan |
| 1:36.6 | CR to prevent this reckless shutdown. We do not want to let a Trump temper tantrum govern our policies or cause the shutdown of a government |
| 1:47.8 | which everyone on both sides of the aisles knows is the wrong idea. |
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