In a rare move, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt will hold her second White House press briefing of the week as the Democrats’ government shutdown enters its third day.
The government shut down when the clock struck midnight after Senate Democrats used for ransom their demands for $1.5 trillion to provide free healthcare to illegal aliens and gender transition care for minors, and refused to vote on a stopgap measure on Tuesday night.
This is despite an overwhelming majority of voters, including nearly half of Democrats, saying in a recent New York Times poll that they did not think the Democrats should force a government shutdown to push their radical agenda.
Since the shutdown, the White House has put a clock page on its official website, counting the length of the shutdown to the second. The page also features letters of support for a clean continuing resolution from most states’ legislatures and other local officials.
During a press conference on Wednesday, hours after Senate Democrats, led by Chuck Schumer (D-NY), shut the government down, Vice President JD Vance joined Leavitt in the briefing room, leading to speculation of another surprise special guest during today’s briefing.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, Vance spoke out against Chuck Schumer and the Democrats, slamming them for flip-flopping on government shutdowns and the issue of illegal immigration, namely taxpayer funded benefits for illegals.
“If you go back to what Bill Clinton was saying, even Barack Obama, in some cases, what he was saying about illegal immigration 10, 15, 20 years ago, you would put them on the MAGA-Right, based purely on their rhetoric around illegal immigration,” Vance said.
But now, “Chuck Schumer is listening to the far left radicals in his own party,” he said, because he is “terrified he’s going to get a primary challenge from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.”
WATCH: VP Vance RIPS Schumer for Shutting the Government Down to Benefit Illegal Aliens – Claims Chuck Is “Terrified ” of AOC
The press briefing is scheduled to begin at 1 pm ET.
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