Watch The ‘Schumer Shutdown’ Mashup Senate Republicans Saw At Tuesday’s Member Meeting

WASHINGTON—As the government shutdown enters its second week, Republicans are finding new and exciting ways to pin the blame on Democrats.

At the Senate Republican member meeting on Tuesday, lawmakers watched a video, exclusively obtained by The Daily Wire, lampooning the “Schumer Shutdown.”

EXCLUSIVE: @realDailyWire has obtained a video Senate Republicans watched at today’s member meeting.

The video features mariachi music, a recurring theme lately on social media, and a mash up of Senators labeling the ongoing standoff the “Schumer shutdown.”

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Set to mariachi music — now the preferred soundtrack to mocking standoffish Democrats, thanks to the White House — the video opens with a clip of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D) struggling with technical difficulties during a CNN hit.

“I can’t hear,” Schumer says toward the end of the video, as the word “Sure” flashes on screen. The video is a mashup of Republicans deploying the phrase “Schumer Shutdown,” Republicans’ go-to byword for the funding fight.

“While the tone of the video was lighthearted the message was not,” a source who attended the Senate GOP meeting told The Daily Wire. “The video summarized exactly where the fault for this shutdown lies, with Chuck Schumer. While pressure mounts on Senate Democrats, Republicans are feeling emboldened in our fight to reopen the government for the American people,” the source said.

Following the meeting, Senate Majority Leader John Thune and House Speaker Mike Johnson spoke to reporters, reiterating Republicans’ call for Senate Democrats to pass their continuing resolution and reopen the government.

On Monday night, the Senate held another vote on the House-passed funding bill. It failed by a vote of 52-42.

Thune said if a few more Senate Democrats vote with them, they can reopen the government.

“Every day that the Democrats keep the government shut down is creating more and worse consequences for the American people,” Thune said.

“I think they’re under enormous pressure from their political left. I think they’re under enormous pressure from their leadership, but they’re going to have to be some brave souls who are courageous enough to come out and deliver the votes to open up the government,” Thune said. 

Johnson said Schumer “wants to play political games,” noting the House previously passed a “clean” continuing resolution.

“They have created a distraction. They’re trying to pretend this is about an end-of-the-year policy decision on healthcare — it is not,” Johnson said.

Schumer posted multiple times throughout the day on Tuesday. One X post said Senate Republicans “do not have the votes to pass their bill.”

“They need to come to the table and negotiate now to reopen the government and bring down healthcare costs. They’re the only ones who seem to think we can’t do both,” Schumer wrote.

He claimed Republicans are “OUTRIGHT LYING about giving undocumented immigrants health insurance through the ACA or Medicaid or Medicare.”

“NOT ONE FEDERAL DOLLAR can be spent for this. It’s already illegal. He just wants to distract from how Republicans shut the government down instead of fixing healthcare for the American people,” Schumer said.

The back and forth drags on. Another Senate vote is expected on the continuing resolution, but no schedule has been set.