Maxwell Frost: “This proposition before us, which we will all support because it is the lesser of the evils, and it is because we have…”

“This proposition before us, which we will all support because it is the lesser of the evils, and it is because we have to do something. This proposition reminds everyone of a Rube Goldberg cartoon; you may have seen those where they have contraptions and they have levers and they have something down here. Let us be very clear what we are doing here, or what the Republican majority is doing here. Certain programs will run until September 30. Certain other programs will run until March 15, and then Federal workers will come in and be able to sit in their chairs on all programs until January 26, but they will not be able to do anything if they do not happen to work for one of those programs that runs until September 30 or one of those programs that runs until March 15. This is a monstrosity created by a Republican caucus in chaos. We should defeat the previous question and substitute a rational approach that puts everybody back to work and funds all programs in a clean CR.”