ALBANY, N.Y. (NEXSTAR) — New Yorkers woke to a federal government shutdown on Wednesday because Congress failed to pass a spending bill or Continuing Resolution—a temporary extension of current funding—by the October 1 deadline. Republican and Democratic officials from New York blamed each other.

From the Right

Republicans in Congress and conservative leaders said Senator Chuck Schumer and Representative Hakeem Jeffries, the Democratic congressional leaders from New York manufactured the shutdown. Republican Represenatives Nick Langworthy, Nicole Malliotakis, and Claudia Tenney, plus New York State Conservative Party Chairman Gerard Kassar, called it the Schumer Shutdown.

Republicans argue that Schumer-led Senate Democrats blocked a "clean" CR to keep the government open, free of contro

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