John Thune: “here we are. Democrats have bowed to the far-left, and they have shut down the Federal Government. As of this morning…”

“here we are. Democrats have bowed to the far-left, and they have shut down the Federal Government. As of this morning, critical Federal employees, including members of the military, Border Patrol agents, and air traffic controllers, are working without pay, and a number of government services are unavailable or at risk. Democrats are well aware of the damage of a government shutdown. We have heard it from them time and time again. But apparently none of that matters to Democrats today. All that seems to matter is that their far-left base sees them "fighting" against President Trump, and the American people just have to suffer the consequences. We can end this today. There is a clean, nonpartisan continuing resolution at the desk that has no partisan policy riders, no new Republican policies. It just keeps the government running until November 21. The House passed it. The President is ready to sign it into law. The only thing standing in the way is Senate Democrats, who are demanding $1.5 trillion in partisan spending to keep the government open for 7 weeks. That is right. They are demanding more than the defense budget in their resolution to keep the government open for 4 weeks. That is not how this works. We were in the situation 13 times when Democrats had the majority under President Biden, and 13 times, Republicans provided more than enough votes to keep the government open, and that is what needs to happen here.”