The man behind the mission. NAACP President Derrick Johnson at the #NAACPImageAwards '26 Fashion Show. | BET

Democrats used to give impassioned speeches about how DANGEROUS and PAINFUL a government shutdown would be for the American people. Senator Schumer, Senator Sanders, Senator Chris Coons, Whip Clark, and Senator Whitehouse all said it. Now EVERY SINGLE ONE of them is bragging about using that pain as “leverage” to appease the Marxists taking over their party. That’s why they’ve voted 14 TIMES to keep the government closed — hurting working families to protect their own skins. | Speaker Mike Johns