it absolutely needs to – it needs to open today if we can get it open

Stop sending money just to insurance companies and hope it gets better. Give Americans freedom of choice.

I do. And it absolutely needs to.

That will cause even more and more socially conservative Democrats around the country to say, 'My party’s left me.'

I have Oklahomans that are dying from methamphetamine, from cocaine, from fentanyl, and from different drugs that are laced with fentanyl on it and mixing it in. That’s happening in my state as it’s happening all around the country.

The president has turned the volume up to 11 and said, ‘No, we’re going to stop drugs coming into our country that are killing folks.’

The administration needs to give insight into Congress. That’s part of it. If this was happening with this level of insight under the Biden administration, I’d be apoplectic.

We've got to be able to get the government open. That's been the typical route that we've always done on this.

It's about the title. It's about the task.

I am attentive to my own security, how about that, for myself and for my family.

We should not, first and foremost, have a government shutdown.