I think we all are angry that our colleagues are not allowing this body to do its job. But we are also angry that the cost of this war is not being borne by members of the United States Senate, is not being borne by Donald Trump's billionaire and corporate friends. The cost of this war is being borne by American consumers, by American small businesses, by American farmers.
Murphy addresses the economic impact of the war.
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I think for all the focus on Donald Trump and the news of the day, people in this country know there is a deeper story in this country, and that is we are a less connected culture today.
The Founding Fathers were really intentional in lodging the war making power not in the executive branch, but in the legislative branch.
The fact is, well, because there's no negotiations happening right now because Republicans are boycotting those negotiations.
We are not always a party that has great message discipline and we kept the conversation focused on the most important topic, which is Republican destruction of people’s health care.
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