Cruz Predicts Schumer Will Try Shutdown Tactic Before Midterms | EUROtoday

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) mentioned he’ll wager $100 that Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) will lead Democrats right into a authorities shutdown earlier than the midterms as a result of it “benefited” them the final time. (Watch the video under.)

Speaking Tuesday on CNBC, Cruz laid out his prediction for the Senate minority chief’s technique.

“On Sept. 30, funding for the federal government will end,” Cruz mentioned. “Chuck Schumer is not a creative guy, he’s not hard to predict. Last year, right before the election, what did Schumer do? He shut the whole government down, and the Democrats believe that shutdown helped them politically, and it benefited them in New Jersey and Virginia.”

“I will wager, right now, $100, that Schumer intends — on Oct. 1 — to do the same thing, to shut the whole federal government down for a month, so that on Election Day ― the day the government is shut down ― you have four-hour lines again in airports, and the Democrats can say, ‘See, the Republicans are in charge, they don’t know what they’re doing.’ This is a political stunt that is coming.”

In the autumn of 2025, Democrats held out for concessions on prolonged medical health insurance subsidies to push a shutdown to a document size. But when six Democrats caved to assist finish the stalemate, they acquired primarily nothing.

However, the November elections held in the course of the shutdown produced Democratic gubernatorial victories in New Jersey and Virginia ― plus successes elsewhere.

Some Democrats “said that the election wins vindicated their party’s strategy in withholding government funding,” HuffPost reported then.

Schumer referred to as the outcomes “a repudiation of the Trump agenda.”

HuffPost has reached out to Schumer for remark.