Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) is drawing fire from Republicans after declaring that “every day gets better for us” Democrats during the government shutdown, which dragged into its ninth day Thursday.

“Democrats couldn’t care less whether military families miss a paycheck tomorrow. In an interview posted this morning, the Democratic leader said, ‘Every day gets better for us,’” Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) fumed on the Senate floor.

“This isn’t a political game. Democrats might feel that way, but I don’t know of anybody else that does,” he declared. “The longer this goes on, the more the American people realize that Democrats own........

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