World Series champ Mark Teixeira takes swing at Dems as government shuts down

Fox News senior congressional correspondent Chad Pergram reports on where things stand as the government shuts down for the first time since 2019 on ‘Fox News @ Night.’

Former New York Yankees star Mark Teixeira took a swing at Democrats before the U.S. Senate failed to pass a bill that would have avoided a government shutdown.

Teixeira, who is running for Congress in Texas, responded on social media to a warning from House Speaker Rep. Mike Johnson, R-Louisiana, who said on Fox News Channel on Monday that Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-New York, and the Democratic Party were planning to shut the government down to "appease their far-left base."

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Former New York Yankees' Mark Teixeira throws out a first pitch prior to the game of the Minnesota Twins against the New York Yankees in game two of the 2019 ALDS playoff baseball series at Yankee Stadium on Oct. 5, 2019. (Brad Penner/USA TODAY Sports)

The World Series champion suggested he had enough.

"This is exactly why I’m running," Teixeira wrote on X on Tuesday. "Democrats are destroying our country, and President Trump needs reinforcements who will fight to take our country back."

Teixeira expanded on his thoughts on Wednesday morning.

"Make no mistake – liberal Democrats in D.C. own this shutdown," he wrote on X. "Republicans have worked tirelessly and in good faith to keep the government open and enact conservative policies that earned a massive mandate in President Trump’s historic victory last November. 

"The Democrats’ lust for aiding illegal immigrants and spending billions of dollars at the expense of hardworking taxpayers has never been more evident. This is exactly why I chose to run for Congress as a political