Political Quotes

“SNAP benefits have been in the news and a topic of much discussion, and those benefits for over 40 million Americans lapsed over the weekend because the Democrats have chosen to hold government funding hostage for political ``leverage''--their word--at the American people's expense. In other words, they are using the American people as pawns. Because of that, their constituents and, indeed, nearly 700,000 Tennesseans are without their SNAP benefits. Border Patrol agents, our air traffic controllers, and Federal law enforcement have been working a month now without pay. This is why you have the AFGE and the controllers union saying: End the Schumer shutdown now. We also know that critical Federal assistance--from rural development programs to small business loans--is in jeopardy. Across the country, people and small businesses are all suffering because of Chuck Schumer and his Schumer shutdown. And for Democrats--I think they have wanted this. They planned for it, and they wanted to see it happen, so they got it. Now, over on the House side, the Democratic whip made it very clear during a recent interview--and I will quote her. She said: Shutdowns are terrible, and of course there will be families that are going to suffer. . . . But it is one of the few leverage times we have. So to the American people, realize that the Democrats you have elected see you as pawns and leverage and pieces that they can move around a chessboard.”