Political Quotes

“negotiators in both Chambers continue working to ensure the government will not shut down at the end of the week. We continue to make very good progress on an agreement, and we are very close to getting it done. I met yesterday with President Biden, with Speaker Johnson, with Leader McConnell, and Leader Jeffries; and we all agree a shutdown is a loser for the American people. In a shutdown, costs would go up, safety would go down, and the American people would pay the price. I am hopeful that the four leaders can reach this agreement very soon so we can not only avoid a shutdown on Friday but get closer to finishing the appropriations process altogether. If our House Republican colleagues of good will want to avert a shutdown--if they want to govern responsibly, as they say they do--they must resist the centrifugal pull of the extreme hard right who want to burn everything down, who openly use the threat of a shutdown to push their extreme agenda. They are brazen about it. They are brazen. We know what the hard right has been pushing. They want to restrict women's reproductive freedoms--we saw the case in Alabama. They want to rip apart gun safety laws and reward corporate polluters. Or else, they say, they want a shutdown. This is no way to govern.…”