Roger Marshall: “Now, as all the Senators know, as all America knows, my friends across the aisle have kidnapped the Federal Government.…”

“Now, as all the Senators know, as all America knows, my friends across the aisle have kidnapped the Federal Government. In fact, they have now voted a dozen times not to reopen the government. And even surprising to most of us, twice they voted against funding the military during these challenging times. I think it is obvious to all America that this is a political shutdown; that this is show biz to them; that this is an opportunity for their left, lazy media to shout and scream at President Trump and to kowtow to their far-left, Marxist base. Now, when you kidnap somebody or an entity, you have to have a ransom. Now, the opening ransom from the Democrats was an additional $1.5 trillion added to our national debt, borrowed from my grandchildren--$1.5 trillion. It was just this week that the Federal Government passed a $38 trillion level for our national debt. We are spending a trillion dollars a year on interest alone. So that was the opening ransom. And now they seem to be locked in on throwing more money at a very broken ACA, the 24 million people on the ACA. But it is interesting to me how, when they want to talk about healthcare, they hide behind rural hospitals, that they think, 'Oh, we are going to help those,' when 97 percent of rural America voted for President Trump.”