A trio of Democratic senators -- Chris Murphy (Conn.), Elizabeth Warren (Mass.) and Tina Smith (Minn.) -- traveled to South Florida on Monday to address rising health care costs amid the government shutdown.

In a video posted by Murphy to the social platform X, the Connecticut lawmaker said that they traveled to the area to speak with “regular Floridians” about impending premium increases.

“I’m here because I think that nobody should go bankrupt over a bad medical diagnosis,” Warren said in the video. “It’s that simple. Donald Trump and the Republicans don’t care, but Democrats are in this fight to say, ‘No, we want health care for everybody.”

The senators’ trip comes as the government shutdown hit day 33 on Monday. If the funding lapse extends into Thursday, it will become the longest

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