Tuberville on Democrat Shutdown Threat: “If they shut it down, it’s their fault”
“The ball’s in their court. Let them do it.”
Senator Tommy Tuberville joined “Newsline” with Bianca de la Garza on Thursday evening to discuss the looming government shutdown, a possible peace deal between Russia and Ukraine, and his bill to protect women in Olympic sports.
Sen. Tuberville was asked about the Democrat’s threats to cause a shutdown, with only Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) being committed to voting to keep the government open at that time.
“John Fetterman has come a long way. He’s had all kind of health issues since he’s got in here, but I tell you what, he is the only leader out there that’s speaking common sense,” Tuberville said. “I call it the ‘woke mind virus.’ That’s what the Democrats have. They don’t want to work with anybody. They don’t want to work to save this country. There’s no way they’re going to shut this government down. It would be political suicide. They’ll come to an agreement tomorrow somehow someway.”
Tuberville continued, “You’ve got all these people standing up saying, ‘We’re going to vote against it.’ The problem they have is they should have fired Chuck Schumer about three months ago and got them a new leader that had some common sense. Chuck Schumer has been just overboard going against President Trump. They’re not going to do anything to help the American people, along with President Trump. So, their leadership’s going to get them in trouble. Hey, if they shut it down, it’s their fault. The ball’s in their court. Let them do it. But at the end of the day, they don’t have enough guts to do it.”
With regards to the news that Russian President Vladimir Putin was technically in favor of the U.S. ceasefire proposals but suggested a call with President Trump might be in order, Tuberville said “Well, President Trump’s not just a dealmaker. He’s a peacemaker, Steve Witkoff’s in Moscow as we speak. Marco Rubio, our Secretary of State, has done a great job. They’re communicating. What a new idea!
He went on to say, “You know, the Biden administration wanted no talks. What the Democrats and the Biden administration [are] worried about is when this war’s over, there will be an audit. You’re gonna find out there’s fraud, there’s theft. People are getting money in their back pockets. American taxpayers’ money had been wasted—plus hundreds of thousands of people in Ukraine and Russia have died for no reason because we knew this was going to end. It’s just we have nobody that wanted [to negotiate the peace] deal. President Trump’s going to get it all over with. He’s going to get the war stopped.”
De la Garza closed the interview by acknowledging that Tuberville has long championed protecting girls in sports in the trans issue. She asked him about his latest efforts to expand that protection to Olympic sports, as well.
“You know, I had a bill on the floor this past year that says keep men out of women’s Olympic sports, and we did that because the Olympics are coming to Los Angeles here in a couple of years, Tuberville began. “We don’t want anything to do with that. We want to let people know across the world that we’re standing up for girls and women. But again, we’re going to fight the Democrats over this because they want men to be in women’s sports. And so, I don’t know whether we can get it passed, but we’re starting now. We got two good years…to try to knock some sense in these people. But again, it’s the ‘woke mind virus’ that has really affected the Democrats.
“And it’s not about the country, it’s not about women or girls, it’s about the Democrats themselves and their power that they want to hold on to. So, Democrats, here we come. We’re going to protect women and girls in the Olympics, also in high school sports,’ Senator Tuberville concluded.
