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.
