Political Quotes

“last night, the Senate agreed to pass a short-term continuing resolution to keep the government open through early February. With less than 2 days to go until the appropriations lapse, if we are to avoid a shutdown, the House must pass this continuing resolution and President Trump must sign it. If President Trump vetoes the short-term spending bill, he would no doubt compound the serious errors he has made throughout the budget process. It is already indisputable that a shutdown would fall on President Trump's back. He has been demanding it for months, and, of course, when Leader Pelosi and I went to the White House, he demanded it in front of all the American people. Now, compounding that--vetoing the last train out of the station, a CR--he would be doubling down on his responsibility for a Christmas shutdown, and every single American would know it. Most importantly, it would not move the needle an inch toward the President getting his wall. I mention these points because several Members of the Freedom Caucus--the hard rightwing in the House--and hard-right voices in the media are openly encouraging the President to veto any CR that doesn't have his money for the wall. These are the same voices pressuring the House leadership to refuse to put the CR on the floor. The voices of the hard right--both in the House and in the media--give no strategy at all--simply, shut the government down. But none of them have detailed any path to get their wall.…”