Blame Game: GOP spotlights 'Schumer shutdown' while Dems lash out at Republicans ahead of 2026 midterms

The blame game over the first federal government shutdown in seven years is intensifying.With neither President Donald Trump and the Republican majority in Congress, nor congressional Democrats, willing to lower the temperature, the government shut down at midnight Tuesday.And both sides are blasting each other in a verbal fistfight with plenty of policy and political implications as next year's battle for Congress heats up."IT’S MIDNIGHT. That means the Republican shutdown has just begun because they wouldn’t protect Americans’ health care. We’re going to keep fighting for the American people