Who stands to gain by the Federal Government writing a check for $26 billion to do what the Democrats want in order to open the people's government?

If you are, unfortunately, somebody who is having a tough time and you are on Medicaid and you are disabled or have children, do these Biden-era COVID subsidies lower your deductibles or your out-of-pocket costs?

So this is a political stunt, and the American people need to see it for what it is. In my career, I have negotiated my whole life. Negotiation is about leverage. Would you agree?

So none of the people I just mentioned--not union workers, not people on Medicare, not people on Medicaid, not people on private insurance, not unions that have negotiated incredible rates-- none of them will see lower healthcare costs; am…

Would you have a hard time walking into this building, Senator, and seeing those Capitol Police officers out there and your staff and knowing that you voted not to pay them?

Correct. And they were $7,500. You could lease a Rolls-Royce, a Mercedes, a Lamborghini, and if you did that, the government would give you $7,500. I want the American people to think about that when they understand how far gone the…

What we’d like to do is for the Democrats to open up the government of course, then we can fund SNAP.

as you well know, I am the new guy here. In the past, I watched government shutdowns from afar. They never made sense to me. And now I am seeing one up close, and I can confirm that government shutdowns are senseless. And this one seems to…

Anger usually wins midterm elections.

I think it’s an absurd ruling.

I’m trying to preserve something in my own country where we are a unified nation, and I don’t think that can happen if you have too much immigration too quickly.

We’re going to keep on working to make a decent life affordable in this country, and that’s the metric by which we’ll ultimately be judged in 2026 and beyond.

The reality is that kids do stupid things, especially young boys.

This is far worse than anything said in a college group chat.

I’m just confused why this idea has come around, considering the fact that not only does their religion not agree with ours, but also openly supports the prosecution of ours.

We’re going to find out the hard way with SNAP benefits — the American people are already suffering, and the suffering is going to get a lot worse, not because the president of the United States has failed to make the shutdown painless.

We’re messing with people’s lives.

Tariffs give us the ability to put American workers first.