Fox News host Jessica Tarlov snapped at her network colleague Bret Baier during a heated debate about a government shutdown.
The clash raged as President Trump threatened to fire federal workers caught in the shutdown chaos, and Tarlov insisted people would blame Republicans.
The U.S. government began shutting down on Wednesday after Congress blew past the Oct. 1 funding deadline without a deal.
Senate Republicans and Democrats are stuck at an impasse. The GOP has a 53–47 majority, but needs seven Democrats to pass a short-term funding bill.
Republicans baulked at Democratic demands for an extension of Obamacare and the Affordable Care Act. “This is kind of simple,” Baier insisted during the Special Report segment, hours before the shutdown began. “This is a plain, fund-the-governme