
The American people aren’t dumb. There are no circumstances in which he is willing to negotiate.
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The American people aren’t dumb. There are no circumstances in which he is willing to negotiate.

It is not a December thing. It is not a January thing. It is a now thing.

Drug cartels are despicable and must be dealt with by law enforcement.

We can’t make commitments or promises on the Covid subsidies because that’s not something that we can guarantee that there are the votes there to do.

Donald Trump has the power to make sure the federal government can continue producing and releasing this critical information on Friday and beyond during his shutdown.

While the data has been processed and there was time to prepare for the data’s release in the event of a government shutdown, the Administration is choosing not to release Friday’s jobs report.

So they’re trying to retaliate against me or Sen. [Amy] Klobuchar and the result is all Minnesotans’ utility bills go up? What’s the point of that? That’s so stupid.

Let’s be clear: the jobs data scheduled to come out this Friday has undoubtedly been collected and the President must release it.

They’ll have a fourth chance tomorrow to open up the government. If that fails, we’ll give them the weekend to think about it. We’ll come back, vote again Monday.

Instead of playing politics with the shutdown, President Trump should be working on bipartisan solutions to lower Americans' costs and create jobs.

Tom, let's come back to the basic premise: This is avoidable.

They’ll have a fourth chance tomorrow to vote to keep, to open up the government.

The Chuck Schumer, [Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez] wing of the Democratic Party shut down the government because they said to us ‘We will open the government but only if you give billions of dollars of funding for health care for illegal…

Americans see it clearly: They know Trump governs by chaos and welcomes this shutdown — and that Republicans are following his orders to maximize pain. That cruelty is already backfiring.

not seeing their health care costs shoot through the roof.