Political Quotes

“we are now in the third day of this government shutdown, and once again, our Democratic colleagues are going to have the opportunity to vote for a clean, nonpartisan continuing resolution that would open the government and allow us to continue working on the appropriations process. Just to kind of give a little perspective on that, here are the statistics showing all of the Biden-era clean CRs that were passed. There were 13 of them--13 of them during the Biden administration, and 96 percent of the Democrats voted for it. Now they can't vote for a clean resolution. How do you explain that? Unfortunately, Democratic leadership is demanding more than $1 trillion in new spending just to keep the government open. So instead of voting for this clean CR, they want more than $1 trillion in new spending in a CR that--the CR has no Republican priorities in it; it is just a clean CR. So how is it we are supposed to put trillions of dollars of Democrat priorities in a CR that goes until November 21? That is what Leader Schumer has said, and that is exactly why this is the Schumer shutdown. They have taken our government hostage with a list of demands that is really quite astonishing. They want funding for healthcare for illegal immigrants, and they want more subsidies for pandemic-era health insurance, all while actually repealing a $50 billion healthcare fund for rural hospitals that was put in the One Big Beautiful Bill. How does that make sense?”