Watch: Sen. Kennedy Makes Prediction on What Will End the Schumer Shutdown
By: Daphne Moon | October 8, 2025
While the liberal media continues to parrot talking points blaming Republicans for the ongoing government shutdown, the truth about the Democrats’ shocking spending demands is finally breaking through to the American people. Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) has been a courageous voice cutting through the left’s disinformation campaign, boldly detailing the absurd and wasteful foreign projects that Chuck Schumer and his caerus are holding the American government hostage to fund.
In a powerful and revealing list, Senator Kennedy exposed the sheer insanity of the far-left’s priorities, which are being placed ahead of the needs of hardworking American taxpayers. The items that Democrats are demanding be reinstated before they agree to reopen the government are not just wasteful; they are a slap in the face to fiscal responsibility and common sense. These outrageous demands include a staggering;
- “$3.6 million for cooking and dance workshops for male prostitutes in Haiti”
- “over $4.2 million for LGBTQ projects in the Western Balkans and Uganda.”
- “$6 million to subsidize Palestinian media outlets”
- “$3 million for circumcision and vasectomies in Zambia.”
- “more than $833,000 for transgender people in Nepal”
- “$500,000 to purchase electric buses in Rwanda,”
- “$300,000 to sponsor a pride parade in Lesotho.”
This is the radical agenda that Chuck Schumer has chosen to shut down the government for, proving that the Democratic Party is entirely controlled by its extreme socialist wing.
Appearing on Fox Business with host Larry Kudlow, Senator Kennedy laid out his prediction for how this manufactured crisis will ultimately end, revealing the raw political calculus behind Schumer’s actions. Kennedy stated, “I know him well. This shutdown is not about policy. It’s about politics.” He went on to explain the Minority Leader’s futile motives, saying, “He is trying to get the loon wing, the socialist wing of the Democratic Party, which is in control, to love him. And they will never love him.“”
Kennedy correctly argued that Schumer would be better off abandoning this political theater, noting he should be “doing what he did back in March and just calling it like he saw it and keeping government open.” Instead, Schumer is making an impossible ultimatum, which Kennedy summarized as, “’We’re going to keep government shut down until you Republicans and President Trump give the Democrats $1.5 trillion,’ and they’re going to tell us how to spend it.”
The Louisiana Senator predicts that the shutdown will only end when Chuck Schumer is forced to orchestrate a face-saving retreat. Kennedy told Kudlow, “It will end eventually, when Senator Schumer goes to six or eight of his members and Democrats and says, ‘Do me a favor. Vote to open it back up. I may have to criticize you. I’m not going to vote with you, but I need a way out of this. I need an off-ramp.’” He concluded that this is the inevitable outcome, warning, “But he’s got to be careful because if it looks contrived, he’s blown it. And he can’t look like he’s having a mutiny. But that’s how we’ll open back.” This entire crisis underscores the necessity of President Donald Trump’s strong stance against out-of-control spending and his commitment to putting America’s interests first.
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