Authorities shutdown sparks Mark Teixeira's criticism towards Dems

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Former New York Yankees star Mark Teixeira took a swing at Democrats earlier than the U.S. Senate didn't cross a invoice that might have averted a authorities shutdown.

Teixeira, who's operating for Congress in Texas, responded on social media to a warning from Home Speaker Rep. Mike Johnson, R-Louisiana, who stated on Fox Information Channel on Monday that Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-New York, and the Democratic Occasion had been planning to close the federal government right down to "appease their far-left base."

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Former New York Yankees' Mark Teixeira throws out a primary pitch previous to the sport of the Minnesota Twins in opposition to the New York Yankees in recreation two of the 2019 ALDS playoff baseball collection at Yankee Stadium on Oct. 5, 2019. (Brad Penner/USA TODAY Sports activities)

The World Sequence champion steered he had sufficient.

"That is precisely why I’m operating," Teixeira wrote on X on Tuesday. "Democrats are destroying our nation, and President Trump wants reinforcements who will struggle to take our nation again."

Teixeira expanded on his ideas on Wednesday morning.

"Make no mistake – liberal Democrats in D.C. personal this shutdown," he wrote on X. "Republicans have labored tirelessly and in good religion to maintain the federal government open and enact conservative insurance policies that earned a large mandate in President Trump’s historic victory final November.

"The Democrats’ lust for aiding unlawful immigrants and spending billions of {dollars} on the expense of hardworking taxpayers has by no means been extra evident. That is precisely why I selected to run for Congress as a political outsider – to cease the Democrat agenda that’s destroying our nation and assist President Trump get America again on observe.

"We are able to’t let woke liberals and the Washington swamp drive our nation off the cliff. It’s time for People to return collectively and assist us strengthen our majority in Congress for the nice of the nation."

Hours after Teixeira’s publish, the federal government funding invoice didn't get by way of the Senate. The invoice, which might have given Congress till Nov. 21 to set FY 2026 funding priorities, handed the Home largely alongside occasion traces on Sept. 19. The Senate is anticipated to vote on the identical invoice once more on Wednesday, with extra votes to return by way of the remainder of the week and into the weekend till both a deal is struck or Democrats relent.

President Donald Trump informed reporters earlier within the day that Republicans didn't need a shutdown, however warned the GOP may inflict ache on Democrats ought to the federal government shut.

New York Yankees first baseman Mark Teixeira (25) at Tropicana Discipline on Sept. 21, 2016. (Kim Klement/USA TODAY Sports activities)

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"We are able to do issues in the course of the shutdown which can be irreversible, which can be dangerous for them and irreversible by them, like reducing huge numbers of individuals out, reducing issues that they like, reducing applications that they like," Trump stated in reference to the Workplace of Administration and Funds’s memo about mass layoffs.

Schumer, the Senate minority chief, responded to Trump throughout a press convention on Tuesday, "Effectively, there it's. Trump admitted himself that he's utilizing People as political pawns. He's admitting that he's doing the firing of individuals. If God forbid it occurs, he is utilizing People as pawns."

"As I stated, Democrats didn't need a shutdown. We stand able to work with Republicans to discover a bipartisan compromise, and the ball is of their courtroom," Schumer stated.

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Teixeira launched his marketing campaign for Texas’ twenty first Congressional District in August. It adopted Rep. Chip Roy’s choice to not search reelection.