Jon Stewart on government shutdown deal: 'A world-class collapse by Democrats'

Jon Stewart minced no words for congressional Democrats on Monday evening, hours after a coalition broke from the party and voted with Republicans to extend government funding through January with no assurances on the healthcare tax credits at the center of the 41-day stalemate. “By the way, tonight’s show will be brought to you by: I can’t fucking believe it,” Stewart fumed at the top of The Daily Show. “I can’t fucking believe it: for when the ‘I can’t believe it’ Edvard Munch scream emoji doesn’t quite convey how much you cannot fucking believe it.”

“They fucking caved on the shutdown, not even a full week removed from the best election night results they’ve had in years,” he continued. “Seven Democratic senators and an independent voted with their Republican counterparts to end the shutdown and reopen the government.”

“You had the wind at your back, election victories all over the country, the new Sydney Sweeney movie – box office bupkis,” he added. “Apparently, her new Maga fanbase didn’t show up in droves to see a biopic about a lesbian professional boxer who overcomes domestic violence to live her truth. Who could have seen that coming? Democrats, you sold out the entire shutdown not to get what you wanted but for a promise to not get what you wanted later.”

Stewart also raged at the fact that the only assurance Democrats received on the expiring tax credit for healthcare premiums – whose end would effectively cause millions to lose their health insurance – was the promise of a vote on the issue sometime in December. “Surely, someone in the party understands that offering a vote in the Senate without a commitment that it would pass or that the House would even take it up is an empty offer,” he said.

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/nov/11/jon-stewart-government-shutdown-deal

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