Democratic Party Civil War Erupts Over Shutdown Deal
A fierce split has erupted within the Democratic Party after eight Senate Democrats joined Republicans to advance a deal ending the historic government shutdown. Sean Hannity frames it as an unprecedented "civil war," highlighting leaders like Chuck Schumer, Dick Durbin, Tim Kaine, and AOC facing outrage from progressive voices and grassroots activists. Guests such as Mark Simon and Dr. Josh Umber discuss how this infighting signals a new power dynamic with the party's left wing, led by AOC and the Squad, openly challenging the old guard, while practical impacts like flight delays and food stamp cuts hit millions. This moment matters as it shows a major transformation in Democratic leadership and priorities, affecting not just party politics but American lives going into the holidays.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Well, it is a full-on Democratic Party civil war that has broken out.
And it has broken out because the first step to reopening the government happened last night when enough Democrats decided enough of the Schumer shutdown.
And now it is just the wrath of the real power base of the Democrats has gone insane.
And it is breathtaking to watch.
I've never seen a crackup like this.
It's everything we've been telling you is happening, except nobody's really just been laying it out as plainly as we try to lay this thing out here.
It is going to lead.
There's going to be some political roadkill, if you will, in terms of people that are currently in power and name only, like Schumer.
And I think it'll probably impact Hakeem Jeffries as well, because finally, enough Democrats have come to their senses and they said, this has got to stop.
This has got to end.
We have got to get this government open.
You know, look, I've never been a big believer that government shutdowns are as bad as they people predict they're going to be because they always end up getting resolved much quicker.
This now being the longest shutdown in history.
And it looks like with the end of it comes with it a civil war within the Democratic Party ranks.
I mean, yeah, okay, they got just enough votes.
Eight members of the Democratic caucus voted with Republicans last night, bringing the magic number to the filibuster defying 60 votes that have been needed.
Three of them, Federman, Pennsylvania, Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada, and Independent Angus King of Maine have been voting to end the shutdown since early last month.
They were joined by Dick Durbin.
Why Dick Durbin?
If Dick Durbin was running for reelection, he never would have voted for this.
I think behind the scenes, probably Schumer, in spite of his public posturing to hang on to power, I think that he was basically saying, all right, I'm out, so it doesn't matter to me.
I'm not running for reelection.
I don't care.
And the only member of leadership to back the deal, who is notably retiring next year, Tim Kaine of Virginia, again, taking one for the team, who represents 150,000 to 300,000 workers.
Janine Shaheen of New Hampshire, also retiring next year.
Maggie Assan of New Hampshire and Jackie Rosen of Nevada.
Now, that has now resulted in an absolute firestorm.
If you look at liberal social media, it is on fire.
If you listen to Democrats and the media, now I will say this: Angus King, Tim Kaine, even Dickie Durbin.
Let me play Dick Durbin, for example.
Pay close attention to what he says here.
The fate of this effort depends on both the Senate and the House of Representatives.
After a seven-week absence, Speaker Johnson needs to call his members back and join us in the hard work that lies ahead.
Many of my friends are unhappy.
They think we should have kept our government closed indefinitely to protest the policies of the Trump administration.
I share their opinions of this administration, but cannot accept a strategy which wages political battle at the expense of my neighbor's paycheck or the food for his children.
All we've been hearing from Democrats, oh, yeah, we know people are being hurt by the shutdown, but we don't care.
You know, we need the leverage.
They've actually been saying the quiet part out loud, which has been pretty spectacular.
But liberal media, I mean, the vitriol, the outrage, the madness, the insanity, you know, it is now bleeding out.
You know, Gavin Newsom puts up an ex-post pathetic.
One word.
Senator Schumer is no longer effective, should be replaced.
Representative, Democratic Representative Rokana, who may himself, you know, be looking to run for higher office.
Schumer's done.
You know, it's probably just a matter of time until he finally just packs it in and says he's retiring.
That's my guess.
And, you know, but we got to go back.
The canary in the coal mine was kind of leveled after the election last week.
And AOC took direct aim at Schumer and direct aim at Hakeem Jeffries.
Now, going back to when Pelosi was speaker, what have we said about AOC on this program?
That AOC is the real speaker of the House.
And Pelosi at the time, now Hakeem Jeffries at this time, they are leaders in name only.
And AOC went at both of them with a direct hit.
Here's what she said about Schumer and the old guard.
The Senate Democratic leader, Chuck Schumer, did not endorse in this race.
He did not endorse Mamdani and wouldn't say how he voted.
What's your response to that?
Well, what I think is so impressive about what Zohran Mamdani accomplished tonight, as well as the entire movement of New Yorkers that came out to vote for him, is that he had to not just defeat a Republican.
He had to defeat a Republican and the old guard of the Democratic Party at the same time.
He was fighting a war on two fronts and not just one.
And he still won resoundingly.
And I think the message that that sends is that the Democratic Party cannot last much longer by denying the future, by trying to undercut our young, by trying to undercut a next generation of diverse and upcoming Democrats that have the parties, the actual party, the actual electorate and voter support.
The most bold statement to date that she recognizes that she has more power, and she does.
And I've been saying this for a long time.
The Democratic Party has been taken over by the more radical wing, the Green New Deal leadership.
And that includes, I'd say, AOC is on top, to be very frank with you, leading the squad, pushing the Green New Deal, partnering with the Fight the Oligarchy Tour with Bernie Sanders.
Pocahontas is a part of it.
Jasmine Crockett is a member in great standing.
And so what do I think?
I think behind the scenes that the people that are going to be least impacted by their decision to vote for opening the government basically said, yeah, I'll fall on the sword.
They never would have if they were running for reelection.
I think that's very deep and profound.
Now, she also went after Hakeem Jeffries.
Remember, Hakeem Jeffries didn't endorse Momdani until like the weekend before the mayoral race, which was a long time.
He didn't want to do it, but he knew and was compelled to do it because he's understanding that his own power base is hanging in the balance and it may be done also because AOC went right at him because Hakeem Jeffries had stated that Zora Mamdani is not going to be the face of the Democratic Party.
And by the way, he's wrong about this.
Listen.
No, we have another cut from last week, if you find it.
Anyway, so she said that Hakeem Jeffries Is absolutely those that say that he's not part of the Democratic future and leadership, that they're out of touch.
So she's going right at the heart of the Democratic Party base.
And now both Chuck Schumer, I mean, Chuck Schumer literally said to F off as Democrats are raging in this, you know, I've never seen a crack up as bad as this in my lifetime.
Now, there have been times in the past where Democrats, McGovernites, et cetera, have gone off the rails, but not like this.
So the eight members of the Democratic caucus that backed this late night deal last night to reopen the government.
Now the question is, I think most Democrats privately want to get the hell out of there.
If in fact that happens, if they use procedural votes, which they're very capable of doing, then they can keep this alive until probably Friday.
For the record, the Speaker of the House, and I've been in touch with him, Mike Johnson, has called his members back.
I mean, we have over 5,000 delayed flights today and over 2,000 canceled today.
I mean, it's insane in part because this is how far they have taken all of this.
Again, for the leverage that they have been quietly saying that they need.
Now you have other people like RoConna, California, saying that Chuck Schumer is no longer effective, should be replaced.
Remember when he supported the CR back in March, he was excoriated.
He wasn't going to make the same mistake twice.
He's thinking by appeasing this base that somehow he's going to garner goodwill.
He's not.
It's over.
It's done.
It's finished.
And, you know, even Sean Duffy, Transportation Secretary, warned that air travel is going to worsen as we're now heading into Thanksgiving weekend.
And this is all on the Democrats.
They wanted to get past election day to make this happen.
U.S. airports where delays are piling up.
I mean, O'Hare, Chicago, Atlanta, Hartsfield, Charlotte, Newark, Philly, D.C., Boston, Chicago, Houston, Dallas, Orlando, Tampa, Miami, Phoenix, L.A., San Francisco, Salt Lake, Seattle, Denver.
I mean, all major hubs in the country.
And it's like, you know, the hunger games here.
I mean, Democrats, you know, saying that we know that people are getting hurt, but we don't care.
We need the leverage.
In spite of 42 million American food stamp recipients now being victimized here.
You know, Team Trump first saying, okay, well, we'll pay half of this month's benefits because we don't have enough to pay the full amount.
The Republicans, they, and I'll play this later in the program today.
Republicans, they have given the Democrats 15 times to vote for that which they have said that they wanted, you know, throughout 14 shutdowns in modern history.
And that is a clean CR, which is a continuing resolution that keeps the government open and funds it at current levels as they work this all out over time.
Now, you know, I'm watching, you know, Jaheen Shanin.
She's, you know, asked if Democrats are capitulating and Angus King and Tim Kaine admits that he voted into the shutdown.
It's not working.
Angus King said it's not working.
You know, it's not helping out the American people, at least some sense.
And you have people like Chris Murphy.
There's no way to defend a vote to end the shutdown.
Well, what are they demanding?
They were demanding $1.5 trillion.
Part of that demand was hundreds of millions for illegal immigrants to get health care.
That was part of it.
Another part of it was refunding NPR and PBS.
And this was all for a seven-month continuation of keeping the government open.
I'm sorry, seven-week, not seven-month.
So this crack up, and Bernie Sanders will play a lot of this throughout the program today, speaks out against the deal.
50,000 people will die.
Well, you know, I was talking to Mark Simone, he'll join us later in the program, and he had a good line.
You know, he said, well, if it's affordable care, why do you need the government and government subsidies to afford it?
It's not that affordable.
And every promise of Obamacare has failed.
It's been a spectacular failure.
You know, millions of Americans did lose their doctors in spite of the promises of Obama and Democrats.
You know, millions lost their plans, and we didn't save $2,500 per family per year.
And they tried to spiral everyone into a universal health care system.
Thank God Donald Trump stopped that.
But, you know, all across the board, I mean, I've never seen such an open rebellion in Democratic Party ranks like this.
You know, Sonny Houston on the View, that heart-hitting news show, calling for Schumer to step down because Democrats caved on this particular issue.
Whoopi Goldberg slamming the eight Democrats.
Then you got Zura Mamdani saying that the government's going to confiscate privately owned property if landlords don't pay fines.
Again, we'll get to that later in the program.
And it is, and then Democrats, James Carville, saying if they win in 28, oh, yeah, they're going to increase Supreme Court justices from 9 to 13.
Now, one of the things that I know people are saying, well, oh, Donald Trump is making this.
Donald Trump is saying, if we're going to give, you know, if we're going to help people, and this is where we have talked for years on this program about alternative solutions to health care, healthcare savings accounts, patient power by the Cato Institute.
This is why we've had Dr. Josh Umber on this program.
Healthcare cooperatives, 50 bucks a month, unlimited access to a doctor, 24-7.
This is where, you know, technology would come in.
That would be telemedicine.
This is where prescription drug prices that the president has been negotiating with these companies is going to be so impactful for the average American family.
But free market solutions rather than government top-down solutions are going to be the answer if you really want affordable health care and you want to give people choices and options.
And one big part of it is: okay, if you're young and healthy, a big part of your insurance is a yearly checkup, and that's probably about all you'll need unless you need stitches or you break a bone, but you have catastrophic insurance.
If you have a heart attack, a stroke, a bad accident, and with whatever deductible you can afford, okay, then you're covered.
And that's a lot cheaper than the average health plan.
25 now till the top of the hour, 800-941, Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, I know the Biden-Harris economy hangover is not that long since the One Big Beautiful Bill passed.
It's not that long since the tax cuts have been passed.
Remember, it took Reagan about a year and a half for the economy to turn.
It doesn't turn on a dime.
And never before have we had trillions and trillions of dollars as President Trump has been able to accumulate in new investment in manufacturing around the country, which I think is going to be a great boom.
Reagan cut taxes 70 to 28%, longest period of peacetime economic growth in history to that point, and 21 million new jobs were created.
All of this is going to happen.
Add the energy component.
Add the massive amount of committed investments over the next few years.
Note how they've incentivized manufacturers to build out their facilities with bonus depreciation.
They can write off the building of their facilities, which means people get to work faster, first building out the centers, and then secondly, the jobs that will be created thereof.
But it's still, we've got a hangover, economically speaking.
I know there's this blame game going on, and I'll play it in the next hour.
I won't play it now because I really have so much information I want to get to you.
This is hanging by a thread, this reopening.
I think it's going to happen, but there's a lot of resistance.
I mean, the radical Democrats now have that much power and that much control over the Democratic leadership that they really are in abstentia.
They are the leaders of the Democratic Party.
This is now Bernie Sanders' dream.
This is the squad's dream.
This is AOC and Mamdani's dream.
They are the power base of the party.
Every single shutdown prior, Democrats like Schumer, again and again, we're not going to be held hostage.
And the list goes on and on, the adjectives he used.
And either I get what I want.
Now, the Republicans, what, 14, 15 times now have voted for a continuing resolution.
The House passed it.
The Senate has voted 15 times.
They just can't get past the filibuster.
And there's been a deep divide whether to eliminate the filibuster or not.
But let's put that discussion debate off for another day.
You now see the real life impact of this being the longest shutdown in history.
Usually shutdowns end because at some point, everybody used to, not anymore, get to a point where, okay, this is hurting the American people.
We're supposed to be their public servants.
And the negotiation then begins after they reopen the government, keeping the government at current levels of spending.
That's what a clean CR is, continuing resolution.
That's what the Democrats and the Senate have rejected because they fear their radical base.
But now it's impacting 42 million Americans that get SNAP benefits.
We now have today over 2,000 flights canceled or somewhere around there and 5,000 flights delayed.
We're heading into Thanksgiving week.
When is it next week, Linda?
I think it's next week.
And President Trump has now ordered air traffic controllers to return to work immediately or they will face a pay cut.
All air traffic controllers must get back to work now.
He said anyone who doesn't will be substantially docked.
He said, for these air traffic controllers who are great patriots and didn't take any time off for the Democratic shutdown hoax, I will be recommending a bonus of $10,000 per person for distinguished service to our country.
For those that did nothing but complain and took time off, even though everyone knew they would be paid in full shortly in the future, I am not happy with you.
You didn't step up to help the U.S. against the fake Democrat attack, and that was only meant to hurt our country.
And remember, and I can play for you again, I played it a lot now in the past.
All the times Democrats said they need this as leverage.
He said, you will have a negative mark, at least in my mind, against your record.
If you want to leave service in the near future, please don't hesitate to do so with no payment or severance of any kind.
You will be quickly replaced by true patriots who will do a better job, et cetera.
Now, one thing that Sean Duffy, I've had long conversations both on and off the air with him, he's trying to, do you know that air traffic controllers have to retire at 55?
That's insane.
You know, 55 is like the old 40 for crying out loud.
I mean, longevity is now real.
And, you know, you lose top experienced people that way.
He's now trying to bring those people back and incentivize them to come back and let them keep their retirement and make more money and not have it be taxed, I believe.
President Trump yesterday said that he's going to try to give $2,000 from tariff revenue collected by the administration to Americans that excluding high-income people.
If I had to guess that that would be household income of $150,000, $200,000 or more.
He said the summer, Josh Hawley introduced legislation to give $600 tariff rebates to nearly all Americans and their dependent children.
My legislation would allow hardworking Americans to benefit from the wealth.
And these tariffs are bringing in a fortune.
And you might say, well, what about the deficit?
Well, for every new dollar that Reagan brought in by cutting taxes from 70 to 28%, revenues doubled.
The problem then was the problem we have today is for every new dollar Reagan brought in, they spent $1.25.
And, you know, the size and scope of government is now out of control.
But this civil war is real.
The leader of one of the nation's largest progressive political organizing groups called for Chuck Schumer's resignation.
Chuck Schumer's career is over.
Anyway, Schumer was not among the eight members in the Democratic caucus.
No, they sat in a closed room.
Let me tell you what happened.
And Dick Durbin, he's retiring.
All these people are retiring.
Okay, we'll do yours.
You're from a state.
You're not going to be impacted.
You'll probably be rewarded if you help open the government.
That's how this deal went out.
And probably the same thing will happen in the House if, in fact, one Democratic vote is needed.
And there is, you know, my colleague Chad Pergram puts out the Hitchhiker's Guide to All Things Washington, and he says reckonings are coming.
If government stays closed, voters will, I mean, how angry are people that have been, if any of you listening to this show have gone to an airport over the last week, you know what you're experiencing.
It is hell on earth.
It's awful.
You know, some of these concerns may dissipate if lawmakers address the shutdown quickly.
But, you know, Hakeem Jeffries is not indicating, he vows to fight the Senate shutdown agreement.
He's vowed.
I'm not expecting a single Democrat in the House.
And then if you start out losing, say, Tom Massey and Marjorie Taylor Greene, I mean, we're now at a razor-thin margin again.
And it appears that, you know, Senate Republicans will barely be able to send this back to the House.
And the House Speaker has ordered all House members to return.
House Democrats, a number of them, now venting that they don't support their Senate colleagues.
I mean, the Civil War gets louder and more aggressive by the day.
There's no real winners and losers here.
The right thing to do would have been once people started getting impacted, once this became real, usually shutdowns get to the point where it begins to become real, and you're going to stop making snap benefits and you're going to have air traffic control issues like we have on top of, remember, Joe Biden left office and we were shy about 3,000, 2,000 or 3,000 air traffic controllers to begin with.
You know, what's happened is this party is now controlled by this radical left.
They're choosing politics over the paychecks of American working men and women, and they are even saying it.
They're saying the quiet part out loud.
They want the leverage, even though they know people will get hurt.
And I'll play that later today.
But this is a gamble on their part.
You know, what is already a record-long federal closure, you know, I argue is going to blow up in the Democrats' faces because the country's going to see the real power base in the Democratic Party.
First of all, the leadership's beholden to the real leaders that are radical hard left and that the Democratic Party now is the face of it would be Mondani, the squad, Jasmine Crockett, Grandpa Bernie, Pocahontas.
Everything I've been telling you is now playing out before your very eyes and it is all real, unfortunately.
It was an interesting article.
I don't know if you saw this, Linda, but so Nancy Pelosi's retiring.
Okay, Nancy Pelosi, 38 years in Congress, and by the numbers, her years in Congress, she had $785,000 value of stock holdings prior to her entering Congress 38 years ago.
$133.7 million today.
That is a 16,930% profit.
$3 million net worth before joining Congress, now a net worth of $280 million.
And she owns a winery on top of it.
And, you know, I don't mind success, but can you name one Wall Street firm that has a 16,930% return over that period of time?
Because I can't.
Maybe it exists.
I don't know.
Well, always remember, when they asked her, should we stop Congress members of Congress from trading?
She said, absolutely not.
And if you look at the members of Congress that are trading and not fully disclosing how they trade, they're all multi-millionaires, mostly Democrats, definitely some Republicans too.
But it's a massive problem.
Huge problem because they have inside information.
There's actually, I don't know what the name of the website, forgive me, but I've read about it numerous times.
It's actually a website that has, because she has to publicly disclose what she's investing in.
And there are people that just follow her investment portfolio, albeit not in real time, but as soon as she has to publicly disclose it, when it's disclosed, they're like, all right, I'm investing with that because her track record is nearly perfect.
Well, they don't even need to do that.
They should just follow how she votes.
Whatever she votes on, that's how she's going to invest.
That's why they call it insider trading.
Her and Martha Stewart should have, you know, share to sell.
You know, the thing with Martha Stewart is, I will say this, it was over, it's, I don't know what she was thinking.
I don't know what happened.
I don't know if it got lost in, I mean, she's a multi-millionaire.
I actually met her once, and she took her punishment, and she got on a plane.
She went to jail, never complained publicly, came out and went back to her life.
And it just didn't make sense because of how wealthy she was and how little amount of money that we were talking about in that stock trade.
It makes me wonder if there was something going on there.
I don't know.
100%.
I agree with you.
Because it didn't make sense.
Nobody with that amount of money is ever going to do that, in my humble opinion.
It just defies all logic and common sense.
But, you know, I never asked her.
I never felt the need to ask her.
Now, the Mamdani exodus at the NYPD has already begun.
The NYPD saw a 35% hike in cops of all ranks leaving in October.
245 officers compared to 181 the same time last year.
Let me tell you what's going to happen.
And I'm going to give you some insight here, and I'm going to make a prediction.
You are going to see states like my state, they are going to take fully trained New York officers because Governor Ron DeSantis has already done this.
And he's going to incentivize them with a nice big bonus to move down to Florida.
They're already trained.
They're ready to go.
Actually, you get trained pretty well at the NYPD.
And meanwhile, Momdani doesn't want him anyway, so what's the difference?
Now, the top Zoron commie Marxist Momdani ally, Linda Sarsor, called out for the ouster of Israel supporting Democrats in fiery remarks Thursday at this political conference.
You do the right thing, you keep your job.
You do the right thing, you don't do the right thing, you don't keep your job.
She said, arguing any Democrats who don't oppose Israel will be nudged aside.
I'm finding this rise of anti-Semitism nauseating, and a lot of it is based on a level of ignorance that I find breathtaking.
I really do.
What would Americans ask yourself?
And I think young people, by the way, I've been told by people, really good sources, that a lot of what is online is perfect, is being designed, and that there's a bot network from countries that are sowing hatred towards Israel at the highest levels, including countries like Iran and others, and that they want this, they want to create this.
And it's just scary because what would you want America to do if we were hit with one rocket?
Never mind hundreds of thousands over the years.
You know, and then Mamdani now announcing that he's going to begin confiscating New York business owners' properties and have the government take ownership.
Starting day one, we'll expand the city's special enforcement programs.
The city's going to step in, send them the bill.
If that doesn't work, the city's taking over the building.
Oh, I don't know.
The means of production?
Is that what they're talking about?
Because that's what it sounds like for me.
Oh, by the way, and he did charge $13 per beer at his victory party.
$13.
I thought everything was supposed to be free.
$13 for a beer?
Sounds a little high, Linda, don't you think?
Anyway, $800, $94.
All right, the latest on the government shutdown.
So much more.
Carol Roth, Mark Simone, and Mark Wayne Mullins of Oklahoma next.
