A CNN commentator was unable to hide his disdain for the arguments of a former Donald Trump campaign staffer blaming Democrats for the government shutdown.

The federal government shut down Wednesday after the Republican-led Congress was unable to pass a funding agreement for the new fiscal year, and former Trump campaign official Matt Mowers told "CNN News Central" that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer should shoulder the blame for the failure.

"It's on Chuck Schumer right now," Mowers said. "Let's not forget that a Republican House passed this continuing resolution. All but one Republican senator voted for this continuing resolution. You have a Republican president who said he'd sign the continuing resolution and, not to mention the fact, something I think doesn't get discussed a lot, this is essentially the skeleton and same bones of the budget bill from 2022 that we've barely changed all that much through CRS and omnibuses since then."

"The only thing that's different is the fact that Chuck Schumer, after the March continuing resolution, caught so much flack from the far left of his base, he's concerned about losing a primary next year or possibly losing the minority leader status that he's now allowed for the government to shut down to serve his own political ambition," Mowers added.

Mowers argued that Democrats passed essentially the same budget bill when they held congressional majorities and the White House and said Schumer should be politically toxic for refusing to pass this one, and CNN's John Berman noticed the co-panelist, former Democratic congressman for South Carolina Bakari Sellers' reaction to his claims.

"Bakari, I think I saw an eye roll there," Berman said.

"Yeah, it was an eye roll," Sellers agreed. "The talking points were good and they were coming fast and furious. But that's just not the facts.

"A lot of things have changed since that kind of bare-bones CR. We've seen Republicans take away health care for millions of individuals, so that same [hypothetical] mother that you're talking about, who may or may not receive her WIC [benefits] in a week or two, she right now is going to be deprived of access to health care because federal health centers are shutting down. We just had one here in Columbia, South Carolina, shut down. We've had one in Ohio shut down already, we've already had one in Virginia shut down, because the fact that you all rolled back Medicaid and rates and cuts that should have the American people on edge."

Sellers pointed out the GOP bill would not extend tax credits for Obamacare subsidies, which is why Democrats in the Senate would not vote on the measure passed in the House.

"Tens of millions of Americans who are going to go without health care because of Republicans and, look, Republicans run the government," he said. "They run the government – fix it. This is what you wanted, fix it. You broke it, you fix it."

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