After the deadline passed, each side was quick to blame the other. The Republican shutdown has just begun because Republicans wouldn’t protect America’s healthcare,” Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., Senate minority leader, said in a recorded statement posted to X. “We are going to keep fighting for the American people.”House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., in turn, blamed the Democrats. The fight was over billions in border-wall funding Trump wanted that the Democrats resisted. “Republicans would rather lie and shut down the government down than protect your healthcare.”UPI