White House Press Release - Top Democrat Cheers Americans' Suffering as "Leverage" in Their Sick Political Game

[APP Note:  This is a Press Release from the Trump Administration, not a product of APP research.  Like all Presidential documents it is archived for research purposes. The APP does not assess its factual accuracy one way or the other.]

Americans' pain is Democrats' leverage, according to Rep. Katherine Clark, the number two House Democrat: "There will be families that are going to suffer… but it is one of the few leverage times we have."

As Democrats gleefully wield the suffering of Americans as a weapon in their demented political games, they've plunged the nation into chaos. More than a million federal employees aren't getting paid, Americans are facing excruciating delays at airports, food stamp funding is drying up, small businesses are teetering on collapse, and tourists are shut out of their nation's capital.

Democrats aren't just ignoring the fallout they've unleashed, they're celebrating it as they attempt to appease their Radical Left base. Their own words expose their depravity:

• Sen. Chuck Schumer: "Every day gets better for us"
• Sen. Bernie Sanders: "[If] you reopen the government and we lose our leverage…"
• Sen. Martin Heinrich: "That just gives the President more leverage" if we vote to pay troops, TSA agents, or law enforcement.
• Unnamed Democrat Senator: "People are going to get hammered" if they vote for the House-passed bill to reopen the government.
• Unnamed Democrat Senator: "We would have enough votes if people were not terrified of getting the guillotine."
• Senior Democrat Aide: "The party will not concede short of 'planes falling out of the sky.'"

This is Democrats' disgusting playbook: inflict maximum pain on Americans to cling to power. While President Trump takes decisive action to ensure service members get paid and critical nutrition assistance programs for low-income women and children remain funded, unhinged Democrats are doing anything they can to stop him.

Don't be fooled: the Democrat Shutdown isn't about an honest policy dispute. It's a malicious, calculated, twisted assault on our nation and its citizens — and Democrats must end it.