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House and Senate GOP leaders are heaping blame on Democrats for what multiple people at a Wednesday morning press conference have called the “Schumer shutdown.” “Chuck Schumer at the behest of a bunch of liberal, far left activist groups has walked his Democrat colleagues into a boxed canyon,” Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) said. “There’s no way out, folks, there’s no way out. This could have been avoided. It’s totally unavoidable. And everybody’s now asking the question, how does th