Who’s winning the government shutdown? Or at least the arguments?

Republicans are blaming U.S. Sen. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-New York, for blocking a vote on the stopgap spending bill passed by the House because it does not contain roughly $1.5 trillion in healthcare spending.

Terry Smith, a political science professor at Columbia College in central Missouri, said calling it a “Schumer shutdown” might not be wrong.

“Is it literally true that it’s up to Schumer? I suppose,” Smith told Missourinet. “I mean, he could probably rally Democrats, but right now, I think Democrats feel like, at least for now, public opinion is on their side.”

Smith said neither side seems interested in backing down. He suggested that the Trump Administration believes the longer federal workers go withou

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