NEW: Democrat Minority Whip Slips Up, Admits To Using Families’ Suffering As Leverage In Shutdown Battle

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NEW: Democrat Minority Whip Slips Up, Admits To Using Families’ Suffering As Leverage In Shutdown Battle








October 24, 2025
By michael

Democrats have admitted they plan to prolong the government shutdown into November, a timeframe that could break the all-time record of 35 days, to try to win over voters as Americans start applying for health insurance coverage.

“Shutdowns are terrible and, of course, there will be families that are going to suffer. We take that responsibility very seriously,” House Minority Whip Katherine Clark (D-MA) said to Fox News reporter Chad Pergram during a recent interview. “But it is one of the few leverage times we have.”

The government shutdown has already entered its fourth week, placing a major strain on resources for millions of Americans.

The Trump White House, the Republican National Committee, and other popular accounts on the social media platform X wasted no time in circulating the clip of Clark on the internet.


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🚨 HOLY SMOKES! In a SHOCKING MOVE, the number two House Democrat Katherine Clark said the quiet part out loud regarding the shutdown...SUFFERING is their tool

"Of COURSE there will be families that are going to suffer! [...] It is one of the FEW leverage times we have."

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— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) October 22, 2025

Obamacare exchanges are set to open enrollment on Nov. 1 through the middle of December. Millions of Americans will be blasted with notices informing them that their premiums will go up around the same time.

Adding significant strain to Americans, funding for food stamps and the Women, Infants, and Children programs might run dry. Millions of poverty-stricken Americans who are barely making ends meet could be impacted by the continued shutdown.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy published an op-ed for the New York Post on Tuesday stating that air traffic controllers will miss their first full paycheck if the shutdown runs past October 28.

If the mess lasts beyond October and stretches past November 6, Congress will break the previous record of a 35-day shutdown, set during President Donald Trump’s first term in January 2019.

Many political analysts have cited the lack of bipartisanship, most clearly in the refusal by Senate Democrats to support a GOP-backed stopgap measure that would reopen the government until Nov. 21, as one of many reasons the two sides cannot reach an agreement.

Democrats want Republicans to reverse Medicaid reforms enacted over the summer and extend Obamacare tax subsidies, which are set to expire by the end of 2025.

“The longer this shutdown goes on, the more apparent it is that Democrats never wanted to solve a problem — they wanted to exploit one and drag it out for political cover,” a senior Republican aide explained to The Post. “There’s been no meaningful outreach to committees or leadership staff, as far as anyone can tell. If they were serious about lowering costs, wouldn’t there have been staff-level conversations at some point this year?”

“Though public polling indicates most Americans blame both parties for the chaos, Democrats believe the public will swing behind them after the 24 million on Affordable Care Act Marketplace health plans are alerted that higher premiums are coming,” the NY Post reported.

“It’s still not possible to stop the full impact of the rate increases after Nov. 1,” Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) said in an interview with Punchbowl News last week.

“If we don’t deal with this before Nov. 1, it becomes trickier to solve legislatively, but the heat gets turned way up by the public to do something,” he continued.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) expressed frustration during a Wednesday conversation with reporters, saying that Democrats “can’t even articulate what they want.”

“This was never about a solution on healthcare or anything else; this was about a spectacle, about a political distraction so that they could show a fight to the Marxist left of the Democratic Party,” Johnson told the press.


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