Just like they waited until either Joe Biden had bumbled in the June 2024 debate or he was out of office to admit he wasn’t in charge of his faculties, the “Big Three” of ABC, CBS, and NBC awoke Monday morning by telling viewers it was Democrats who had a “whole strategy” to “drive the country into a shutdown,” but lost out when eight defectors “back[ed] away from what they’ve been demanding” on ObamaCare subsidies.
Having done plenty of heavy lifting for the left in this shutdown, ABC’s Good Morning America was predictably miffed their team caved, leaving them hanging:
Scott tried to make it better by relitigating the fight about food stamp payments and whether the Trump administration could be forced to pay them out in a shutdown, but it came off more like coping with their loss.
Also crestfallen, NBC’s Today was arguably even more despondent over this betrayal.
They similarly admitted Democrats caused the shutdown, saying health care subsidies were “the reason Democrats had pushed for the shutdown in the first place” and that seven Senate Democrats were the ones who “decided it was time to bring the shutdown to the end” and the suffering of hungry Americans: