Jeff Flake: Shutdown Will End Today

Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., leaves the Senate Chamber after lawmakers once again rejected the House version of the government funding bill, Monday night, Sept. 30, 2013, in Washington. The Republican-controlled House a... Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., leaves the Senate Chamber after lawmakers once again rejected the House version of the government funding bill, Monday night, Sept. 30, 2013, in Washington. The Republican-controlled House and the Democrat-controlled Senate are at an impasse as Congress continues to struggle over how to prevent a possible shutdown of the federal government when it runs out of money. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) MORE LESS
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Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) said in a tweet that the shutdown will end on Wednesday, now that House Republicans failed to pass their own bill last night.

Flake opposed using a shutdown as leverage to defund Obamacare from the start because he didn’t think the strategy would work.

“If you’re going to take a stand on something, the other side has to fear a shutdown,” Flake said on MSNBC’s Morning Joe at the beginning of October. “In this case, I think the Democrats knew that if there were to be a shutdown, that it would be Republicans who take the blame. And so you’re threatening to do something that the other side isn’t very fearful of.”

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