I was very angry about it. I was and a lot of my members called me.

I was very angry about it. And a lot of my members called me and said: ‘Did you know about it?’

We're going to put that on the floor for a full vote next week, as soon as we get back.

Am I going to guarantee a vote on ACA unreformed COVID-era subsidies that is just a boondoggle to insurance companies and robs the taxpayer? We got a lot of work to do on that.

We're not going to waste any more time.

House Republicans would introduce legislation to repeal that provision.

Let’s get this done!

I think it was a really bad look, and we’re going to fix it in the House.

I was shocked by it, I was angry about it.

Millions of American families went without food on their table. You had millions of Americans stranded in airports, their flights canceled and delayed. You had troops and federal employees wondering where their next paycheck would come…

We are gonna put that on the floor for [a] full vote next week, soon as we get back.

I think that was way out of line. I don't think that was a smart thing… and the House is going to reverse -- we are going to repeal that.

This outcome was totally foreseeable. I said this would be the outcome when all this began back in mid-September. They did it anyway.

I thank my friend, Chairman Cole, who has done an extraordinary job in this process. Mr. Speaker, we all know why we are here. House Democrats voted to shut down the government. It was 54 days ago when we had that vote. It was September…

As I’ve said time and time again, I don’t have anything to negotiate with.

We look forward to the government reopening this week so Congress can get back to our regular legislative session.

You need to begin, right now, returning to the Hill.

People say, why aren’t you negotiating with Schumer and Jeffries? I quite literally have nothing to negotiate.