Chip Roy says Democratic Party taking its 'dying breaths'

He blasted the left's embrace of the "No Kings" rallies, where millions of people across the U.S. took to city streets to protest President Donald Trump.

"This is the dying breaths of a bankrupt party, in my humble opinion, all too happy to shut down the government," Roy said during the press conference Monday.

He and House Freedom Caucus Chair Andy Harris, R-Md., joined House GOP leaders' daily shutdown press conference in a show of unity across the Republican conference.

"No one disputes one obvious fact: It is Democrats who have chosen not to fund government. We can at least establish that truth, right? It is, in fact, the truth. And the question is, why?" Roy said.

"And you saw it on Saturday - it was basically for a political rally, a rally for cover for [Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.], who's in his own political battle in New York," he added in reference to Republican accusations that left-wing leaders are kowtowing to Democrats' progressive base.

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., during his portion of the press conference, made a plea to Schumer to accept the GOP's federal funding bill now that the protests were over.

"Now that Democrats have had their protest and publicity stunts, I just pray that they come to their senses and end this shutdown and reopen the government this week. Republicans are waiting. The American people are waiting," Johnson said.

It's since failed 10 times in the Senate, with a majority of Democrats rejecting any spending deal that does not also include an extension of COVID-19 pandemic-era Obamacare subsidies that will expire at the end of this year without congressional action.

The ongoing government shutdown is now the third-longest in history.