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I want you to hear something very clearly: The Republicans are the ones delivering for you.

And so is it better for them, probably, to be physically separated right now? Yeah, probably is, frankly.

We put that bill on the floor, and the Republicans voted to pay the troops, TSA agents, border patrol, air traffic and everybody else.

They’re trying to make this about health care. It’s not. It’s about keeping Congress operating so we can get to health care. We always were going to. They’re lying to you.

In my view, you would have Lee Greenwood or role models doing that. Not somebody like this.

The ones delivering for you

I am begging you to pass this legislation.

I voted for it, Republicans did, 99% of Democrats voted not to pay our troops.

The House did its job.

This is a publicity stunt.

That's totally absurd. You guys are experts at red herrings and distractions. It has nothing to do with Epstein.

Yeah, reopen the government so we can get back to work.

It's my understanding that the law is that they would be paid. There is some other legal analysis that is floating around.

The House is done. The ball is now in the Senate's court.

It has always been the case, that is tradition and I think it is statutory law, that federal employees be paid. And that’s my position. I think they should be.

We have all voted repeatedly, over and over, to keep the government open, and it comes down to the necessity of 60 votes in the Senate.

It's not up to the president.

Because they’ve decided to vote to shut the government down, they have now effectively turned off the legislative branch, the Article 1 branch of our government, and they’ve turned it over to the executive.