03/14/2025
https://www.thenation.com...
"You’re in charge. And we’ve tried to negotiate."
"Elon Musk wants a shutdown. Why? Because then it’s carte blanche — open parks, get rid of EPA, no research."
"It's incredibly disappointing that Republican leadership is walking away from bipartisan negotiations to fund the government—and raising the risk of a shutdown in so doing."
"If you appropriate the money — you agree in the House, you agree in the Senate, the president signs the legislation — how can you then decide that that’s not what it’s going to be?"