WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader John Thune told Breitbart News exclusively that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is careening the nation towards a government shutdown, and labeled the impending impasse a “Schumer Shutdown.”

“Chuck Schumer has made it very clear that he wants a shutdown, and I think he wants that to appease his far left activists and despite, as you pointed out, him speaking on the dangers of a shutdown no less than just six months ago,” Thune told Breitbart News this week. “He’s got a long history of talking about how terrible it is when the government shuts down. We’ve got to avoid it, and we need to pass clean spending bills, and we’re offering that up to him, but this if this ends up in a shutdown it will be a Schumer shutdown make no mistake about it.”

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