Tom Cotton: “here we go again. In just a little over 24 hours, Federal funding will run out, and the government will shut down. Let…”

“here we go again. In just a little over 24 hours, Federal funding will run out, and the government will shut down. Let me state for the record that my Republican colleagues and I are ready to get on with matters and ready to fund the government for the rest of this year. We all know that the faster we move it over the finish line, the faster our Federal Government can get to work on behalf of the American people and implement the agenda that the American people elected us to get done. But after our Democratic friends had a nice long lunch on Capitol Hill yesterday, Senator Schumer took the floor to announce that their caucus would not support funding the government because, as he put it, ``Republicans chose a partisan path.'' But here is what Senator Schumer is really saying: Democrats would rather shut down the government than pass the funding bill just to shift blame to Republicans for our current funding predicament. Democrats are going to shut down the government to protect the government. In the next 24 hours, even, Democrats are planning to use the very same filibuster they have opposed and tried to abolish to shut down the government. In the last administration, former Vice President Kamala Harris said that Joe Biden and the Democrats are ``kinda done with those archaic Senate rules.'' But here they are using those archaic Senate rules to shut down the government.…”