Democrats aren’t acting as if they will bear ‘blame’ for DHS shutdown: Sarah Bedford

Washington Examiner investigations editor Sarah Bedford said Democrats don’t seem to act as if they will face serious consequences from voters for the ongoing shutdown. 

The Department of Homeland Security shutdown has lasted almost six weeks, and Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) on Wednesday rejected the latest offer to fund it. He told the Washington Examiner that Democrats are “asking for things that have already been turned down” and claimed the party is “going in circles.”

Bedford said “No” when political commentator Hugh Hewitt asked whether Democrats realize they are “losing” the country’s Transportation Security Administration funding. She added that it seems the Democratic Party is “taking the opposite lesson.”

“Republicans have accused them, I think quite credibly, of moving the goal post on what a DHS funding deal could look like,” Bedford said on The Hugh Hewitt Show. “They don’t seem to be acting in this situation as if