Republicans are the ones delivering for you.

I think that’s what’s going to happen here. The president doesn’t want a single American employee to be harmed.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

The Democrats are the ones that are preventing you from getting a check.

the ones delivering for you

The House did its job.

I am begging you to pass this legislation.

This is a publicity stunt.

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.

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

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

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

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