WASHINGTON – Congressman Byron Donalds (R-FL) joined The Sean Hannity Show on iHeart Radio to discuss the continued violent rhetoric of the radical left, Senator Chuck Schumer's government shutdown, and recent––factually inaccurate—comments made by former MSNBC host Joy Reid.

Listen to the full interview here.

"We've got to call the Democrats out at every single turn. We cannot let them have any space on this because they'll just continue until the next person gets hurt or unfortunately killed":

"You know we can't put up with this, Sean, that's just where we are. You know, she [Rashida Tlaib], it wasn't even two weeks after Charlie Kirk was assassinated, and here she goes again. And she ignored the fact that, not just her, but their language, their rhetoric does put people in danger. We can go as far back as when Steve Scalise was almost killed because Bernie Sanders was running around the country lying to the American people saying that we were going to get rid of healthcare and people were going to die. And you had this nut job go to the Congressional baseball practice, shoot up the practice, Steve Scalise almost gets killed on the baseball diamond. Like this is where the radical left has taken us. Their rhetoric is unhinged, it's out of control and Sean, the reason they have to do this is because their arguments don't make any sense. The economics don't back up their arguments, they don't make good policy so what they try to do is get everyone ginned up emotionally so they can win politically. The problem we're having is yes, we have some people in the country who are crazy and they're hearing this and they're thinking they got to take matters into their own hands. So my view is simple, we got to stand up to it. We've got to call the Democrats out at every single turn. We cannot let them have any space on this because they'll just continue until the next person gets hurt or unfortunately killed."

"Democrats would rather have the government be shutdown than actually stopping giving taxpayer money to illegal aliens":

"In the clips that you just played, demonstrate to the American people that the Democrats would rather have the government be shutdown than actually stopping giving taxpayer money to illegal aliens through healthcare. And it's not just healthcare, Sean, it's through so many other facets of governmental operations which the federal government does fund. And so these Democrats want to hide behind language of, 'well we just want healthcare for everybody.' Well what they really want is to use your money to pay for everybody regardless of whether they're illegal or not in the United States, and that's what we're trying to stop. And they would rather the government be shutdown than doing the right thing and making sure that the American people are actually taken care of and that we're actually saving the American people's taxpayer money and not continuing this constant move of massive illegal immigration in the United States - it causes far more problems. They [Democrats] do not care, they didn't learn their lessons from the '24 presidential election so they need to be defeated again in 2026. That's the way I see it."

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