Senate Republicans are looking to heap pressure on Democrats amid their fight over government funding — and they believe Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D-N.Y.) talkative nature is giving them a key advantage.

While the party remains committed to moving ahead on a “clean” stopgap spending bill, four Senate GOP sources told The Hill they openly want the Democratic leader to continue beating the drums about a potential shutdown, believing his doing so gives Republicans the upper hand and further pushes him into a corner as funding questions fester.

“I think he’s disconnected from the reality of what’s happening on the ground in a lot of places,” Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) said. “People don’t want dysfunction. They don’t want a government shutdown. They don’t want people ta

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