WASHINGTON – This afternoon, Congressman Byron Donalds (R-FL) joined The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show on Premiere Networks to discuss Chuck Schumer's government shutdown, the radical ideas of NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, and college football.

Watch the full interview here.

"They [Democrats] don't have one. The rest of the country is coming to this realization very fast. They don't have a plan":

"They [Democrats] don't have one. The rest of the country is coming to this realization very fast. They don't have a plan. These guys are trying to basically strong-arm one of the toughest negotiators in the history of the planet, and they're trying to strong-arm him. They don't have a plan, they don't have a strategy. They figured if they just stood there long enough, holding their breath, then everybody would just buckle and yield to their view. A lot of these Democrats are using historical political views of how Democrats always win these shutdown fights, but they're not winning it. They're losing it by the day. They were given an opportunity to pay our military, to pay air traffic controllers, to pay TSA agents, to pay border agents and ICE agents; and they voted no. They have no plan, they got no strategy. But the truth is, they haven't had a plan for a long time, and that is because their policy sets are very radical, and they were totally fine leaving an autopen in charge of the country if it meant they got their way. And now that that's gone, and Donald Trump is back, they don't know what to do. That's why this shutdown seems to, it seems to be a shutdown really about nothing except Chuck Schumer's leadership position."

"Well, the number one thing is if Mamdani becomes the mayor, [and] you feel you have to come to Florida, remember why you came here":

"Well, the number one thing is if Mamdani becomes the mayor, [and] you feel you have to come to Florida, remember why you came here. Our state we are a low tax state. We don't have an income tax; law and order is the baseline principle of our state, and that's not changing. And so as long as you come here understanding why you left New York and what Florida is about, then yeah, we're all for it."

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