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CNN Analyst Slams Dems ‘Crazy Talk’ on Gov’t Shutdown: ‘Makes No Sense Politically’

by Sandra Rhodes
February 11, 2025 at 11:27 am
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CNN Analyst Slams Dems ‘Crazy Talk’ on Gov’t Shutdown: ‘Makes No Sense Politically’

CLEVELAND, OH - JULY 21: Mark Preston, Executive Editor for CNN, appears in an episode of Stand Up! with Pete Dominick on SiriusXM at Quicken Loans Arena on July 21, 2016 in Cleveland, Ohio. (Photo by Ben Jackson/Getty Images for SiriusXM) Mark Preston

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The thought of a partial government shutdown is plain “crazy,” a CNN analyst recently said.

Mark Preston lambasted some Democrats who are floating the idea of a partial government shutdown as a way to fight President Donald Trump’s spending cuts, Fox News reported.

Preston’s words came during a segment on “CNN News Central” Monday.

Co-host Boris Sanchez spoke about Democrats are going toward shutting down the government.

Preston said the idea made “no sense politically.”

“Crazy talk to do that,” Preston said. “How can you argue for a government shutdown when you‘re arguing about government being cut? I don‘t understand that. I mean, it makes no sense politically to me, anyway. But what do I know?”

"What do I know?" pic.twitter.com/4q6gyqz1kq

— Mark Preston (@PrestonCNN) February 11, 2025

Earlier, Preston said Trump is ahead of the Democrats regarding political messaging and government spending cuts.

“Let‘s just take a step back and think about what the American people think about Washington, D.C.,” Preston said. “They think very little about Washington, D.C., right? So when they see President Trump going in there and you see Elon Musk going in there and saying, ‘I’ve just cut $17 million.’ He just said he cut a $17 million grant to teach, I don‘t know, tax advice in Liberia. Guess what? The person out in Kansas certainly doesn‘t care about what‘s going on in Liberia right now.”

“So as far as the everyday American, whether it‘s Elon Musk who‘s cutting the money here or the bureaucrats who have been here for all these years doing it, it‘s all the same to them. And that‘s how Trump is trying to frame it,” Preston said.

Preston added Democrats “need to get it together.”

“When Cory Booker was on with Dana Bash yesterday on ‘State of the Union,’ he gave a multi-pronged approach about how Democrats were going to take on Trump. The number one idea was the legal strategy. Okay, that should happen, but that should just happen. Number two, legislative and oversight. They don‘t have any oversight because Republicans control Congress. And then he wanted to put someone on the media,” Preston said.

“And it is incumbent upon us to explain what is happening in the grander scope, not just ‘Boom, boom, boom, this just happened. This just happened. This just happened.’ Take a step back,” Preston said.

Sen. Andy Kim (D-N.J.) talked about the idea of a shutdown Sunday on NBC News’ “Meet The Press.”

“This is on them. This is about whether or not they can get the votes. They are the majority. And if they cannot govern, then that’s for the American people to see,” Kim said.

“I’ve worked through multiple government shutdowns. I will be the last person to want to get to that stage. But we are at a point where we are basically on the cusp of a constitutional crisis, seeing this administration taking steps that are so clearly illegal. And until we see a change in that behavior, we should not allow and condone that, nor should we assist in that.”

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IJR, Contributor Writer She was a Story Editor for Indpendent Journal Review since November 2022 and has written for IJR since February 2024. She has been in the newspaper business in various capacities since 1998.

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