Sean Spicer, Donald Trump’s former White House press secretary, called out Republicans’ political response after Democrats blocked a bill that guaranteed pay for troops during the government shutdown.

“Senate Republicans should be embarrassed by how bad they’re messaging this,” Spicer said Friday on an episode of the show he co-hosts, The Morning Meeting. “They should have been out on the steps last night with military members and Border Patrol.”

He told his co-hosts, Mark Halperin and Dan Turrentine, “The idea that they voted and bolted is an embarrassment to the Republican Party.”

Trump’s first White House press secretary further slammed it as “literally the lamest response” he’d ever seen.

The bill, titled the Shutdown Fairness Act of 2025, was sponsored by Senator Ron Johnson, a Re

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