I am begging you to pass this legislation.

the ones delivering for you

They’re trying to make this about health care. It’s not. It’s about keeping Congress operating so we can get to health care. We always were going to. They’re lying to you.

In my view, you would have Lee Greenwood or role models doing that. Not somebody like this.

The Democrats are the ones that are preventing you from getting a check.

The House did its job.

We put that bill on the floor, and the Republicans voted to pay the troops, TSA agents, border patrol, air traffic and everybody else.

And so is it better for them, probably, to be physically separated right now? Yeah, probably is, frankly.

I want you to hear something very clearly: The Republicans are the ones delivering for you.

It has always been the case, that is tradition and I think it is statutory law, that federal employees be paid. And that’s my position. I think they should be.

Yeah, reopen the government so we can get back to work.

It's my understanding that the law is that they would be paid. There is some other legal analysis that is floating around.

That's totally absurd. You guys are experts at red herrings and distractions. It has nothing to do with Epstein.

The House is done. The ball is now in the Senate's court.

This is a publicity stunt.

Let me look right into the camera and tell you clearly: Republicans are the ones concerned about health care.

No, it has nothing to do with that at all. We will swear her in when everybody gets back. It’s a ceremonial duty.

Look, we’ll schedule it, I guess, as soon as she wants. It has nothing to do with it. I, we’re in pro forma session because there is nothing for the House to do. The House has done its job.

That issue is for debate in the next three months.

Because they’ve decided to vote to shut the government down, they have now effectively turned off the legislative branch, the Article 1 branch of our government, and they’ve turned it over to the executive.

If that is true, that should turn up the urgency and the necessity of the Democrats doing the right thing here.

We have all voted repeatedly, over and over, to keep the government open, and it comes down to the necessity of 60 votes in the Senate.

This has nothing to do with that.

Real people are being adversely affected around the country, and some in – in very substantial ways.

We need a little more time on the clock to finish the appropriations process.