Political Quotes

“Mr. President, as the expression goes, it is time for Democrats to fish or cut bait. We have 2 days until government funding expires. Democrats need to decide if they are going to support funding legislation that came over from the House or if they are going to shut down the government. So far, it is looking like they plan to shut it down. The Democratic leader came to the floor, yesterday afternoon, and had the nerve to complain about the House bill. He wants yet another short- term piece of funding legislation to, as he said, ``give Congress time to negotiate bipartisan legislation that can pass.'' Well, I am not sure how long the Democratic leader thinks we should drag out the funding process for fiscal year 2025: Until fiscal year 2026? Beyond? We are already nearly 6 months into the 2025 fiscal year. In other words, we are halfway through--halfway through--this fiscal year, and it is past time to get fiscal year 2025 funding situated. I would like to suggest to the Democratic leader that, if he has problems with the current situation, maybe--just maybe--he should have funded the government when he was in charge. The reason we are stuck here voting on a CR for the rest of 2025 is because the Democratic leader refused to consider appropriations bills last year. Senators Murray and Collins, then chair and vice chair of the Appropriations Committee, did a lot of work to deliver the fiscal year 2025 appropriations bills.…”