Subject: Re: The Hunger Games begin ahead of schedule.
>>They've expressly stated they want their constituencies to suffer so they can have political "leverage."<<

Cite or it didn't happen. - Lapsody

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Here Ya go. You would know these things if you watched more Fox News


https://rollcall.com/2025/10/2...


Democrats say the quiet part out loud: Shutdown is leverage

But now we don’t have to. We have House Minority Whip Katherine Clark, who apparently slipped up by saying the Democrats’ quiet strategy out loud.

“I mean, shutdowns are terrible and of course there will be, you know, families that are going to suffer. We take that responsibility very seriously. But it is one of the few leverage times we have,” she said in a mid-October interview with Chad Pergram of Fox News.