Political Quotes

“Today marks nearly a full month since the Schumer shutdown started. That was really the time when the Democrats decided to just go on strike and filibuster a clean CR. What has happened is our Federal law enforcement is being forced to work without pay; air traffic control towers are understaffed; flights are delayed; and it has jeopardized nutritional programs for millions of low-income families. This crisis is something that was entirely, completely, unavoidable. Yet the Democrats have voted over and over to keep the government closed. The reason they are doing this is Democrat leader Chuck Schumer is holding the government hostage to ram through hundreds of billions of dollars in inflationary spending. In other words, we are not spending enough--$38 trillion in debt is not enough. They want to run it up some more. He claims that this reckless action is needed to stop Republicans, in his words, 'from taking healthcare away' from Americans by allowing healthcare subsidies to expire under the Affordable Care Act, or ObamaCare, as it is known--and more appropriately known--because there is nothing affordable about this thing. The problem is that is a falsehood, and it shows you how our friends across the aisle are willing to put the American people and their lives and SNAP benefits and paychecks in jeopardy in order to achieve a goal. One thing that needs to be understood is that the subsidies that are there for ObamaCare--they are permanent.”