Hayes skewers GOP attempt to blame shutdown on Dems

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🗓️ 2 October 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Donald Trump is now facing the shutdown he once cheered on as the White House determines which “irreversibly bad” decisions to make.

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0:00.0	Tonight on All-end.
0:03.1	A lot of good can come down from shutdowns.
0:05.7	We can get rid of a lot of things that we didn't want.
0:08.6	Donald Trump and the shutdown, he cheered on.
0:12.4	We can do things during the shutdown that are irreversible, that are bad for them and irreversible
0:18.4	by them.
0:19.7	As the White House determines which irreversibly bad things to do,
0:24.5	they're being very careful and judicious.
0:26.7	They don't want to do any harm to any Americans.
0:30.0	Tonight, the blame game and the imperial president.
0:33.4	They will experience the consequences of this,
0:36.3	but we have to be the consequence.
0:39.3	Then the conservative case that could undo Donald Trump's prosecution of James Comey.
0:44.5	And about that Tom Homan investigation.
0:47.7	I did nothing criminal. I did nothing illegal.
0:50.6	New reporting on how Trump's borders are was caught up in an FBI sting operation.
0:55.6	And all in starts right now.
1:01.5	Good evening from New York. I'm Chris Hayes. The government is now shut down for the first time since, well, the previous Trump administration.
1:08.4	And if you listen to the Trump administration today, this is
1:11.0	entirely and completely the Democrats' fault. They're running a PR campaign to convince everyone,
1:16.3	incorrectly, I'd say, that the Dems are solely to blame for their shutdown.
1:21.9	The reason your government is shut down at this very minute is because, despite the fact that
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