Political Quotes

“It has been 15 days since congressional Democrats shut down the Federal Government. Let's call it what it is: It is the Schumer shutdown. In that period, we have voted eight times on a clean continuing resolution. It is straightforward. It is a short-term bill that funds government at current levels without adding any kind of partisan policies to it. This would give us, here in Congress, time to finish the full-year funding bills responsibly. Instead, Democrats pushed for over a trillion dollars in new spending to recklessly eliminate the $50 billion rural hospital stabilization fund. Why in the world would Democrats want to do that? Why would they want to eliminate this crucial fund for our Nation's rural hospitals? It is unthinkable. The fact is, the Democrats' so-called proposal to reopen the government is packed with unrelated items. This includes the COVID-era bonus payments, overseas climate resilience projects, and taxpayer-funded healthcare for noncitizens. That is not responsible governing, and it is not fair to American families. House Republicans passed and they sent to the Senate a clean CR. That means that it has no poison pills, no policy riders on it. Democrats rejected it eight times. It is now time, folks, for Senator Schumer and his caucus to drop this partisan wish list and do their jobs.”