Late-night comedians Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert and Seth Meyers criticized the eight senators, seven Democrats and one independent, for voting to end the government shutdown.
The late-night comedians expressed frustration with the Democratic Party on Monday after eight senators voted with Republicans on a plan to fund the government, potentially marking the end of the longest government shutdown in U.S. history.
« I can’t f—ing believe it! » Jon Stewart, host of « The Daily Show », shouted. « And what, you ask, is ‘it’? Well, ‘it’ is the Democrats. You remember the Democrats? They shut down the government last month. »
Seven Democratic senators and one independent voted with the GOP on Monday on a deal that would end the shutdown: Sens. Angus King, I-Maine, John Fetterman, D-Pa., Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., Jacky Rosen, D-Nev., Tim Kaine, D-Va., and the number two Democrat in the Senate, Dick Durbin, D-Ill.
« They f—ing caved on the shutdown, not even a full week removed from the best election night results we’ve had in years », Stewart said.
« Yes, the shutdown may have been long and painful for millions of Americans, but at least it achieved jack squat », Stephen Colbert said during « The Late Show » on Monday.
