Brit Hume Explains Democrats' Real Motive for Forcing Shutdown

Fox News chief political analyst Brit Hume said Monday that Democrats prolonged the government shutdown not out of concern for health care benefits but to brand themselves as the opposition to President Donald Trump.

Forty days into the shutdown, eight Senate Democrats broke with Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to back a GOP-led stopgap bill, giving the measure enough votes to advance and finally set the stage to reopen the government. During a panel discussion on “Special Report with Bret Baier,” Hume said prolonging the shutdown exposed what he called the Democrats’ true motivation.

“It really wasn’t about enhanced ACA (Affordable Care Act) benefits. It was about Democrats wanting to position themselves in resistance and opposition to Donald Trump in every way they could do,” Hume told Bret Baier.

Hume called the standoff a “fool’s errand,” saying that using a shutdown as leverage has never succeeded.

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