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

Let me look right into the camera and tell you clearly: Republicans are the ones concerned about health care.

If that is true, that should turn up the urgency and the necessity of the Democrats doing the right thing here.

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.

No, it has nothing to do with that at all. We will swear her in when everybody gets back. It’s a ceremonial duty.

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.

That issue is for debate in the next three months.

Look, we’ll schedule it, I guess, as soon as she wants. It has nothing to do with it. I, we’re in pro forma session because there is nothing for the House to do. The House has done its job.

It's not up to the president.

This has nothing to do with that.

Real Americans are being harmed in the process of this political game.

We were always planning to do that. Again, that funding runs out December 31.

We got to get this fixed now.

They want to spend $1.5 trillion, and they want to return hard-working taxpayer dollars to fund health care for illegal aliens.

We passed a bipartisan, very clean continuing resolution a couple of weeks back now, and sent it to the Senate.

Play the tape of Chuck Schumer saying consistently for the last 30 years that CRs are dangerous, destructive, and selfish.

In a situation like this, where the Senate Democrats have decided to turn the keys to the kingdom over to the White House, they have to make tough decisions.

Real people are being adversely affected around the country, and some in – in very substantial ways.