Political Quotes

“Senate Democrats have now dragged us into the Schumer shutdown. When I say "us," I mean all of us as Americans. It didn't have to happen, and it certainly doesn't need to continue. Americans are overwhelmingly against the shutdown of our government. New polling from the New York Times and Siena just came out, and the polling proves it. Here is the key finding: Two out of three Americans believe that Democrats should not shut down the government, even if they don't get their trillion-dollar ransom fee paid, which of course they won't. Only 47 percent of Democrats support the shutdown. That is not even a majority of Democrats. Senate Democrats are on the wrong side of Republicans, they are on the wrong side of Independents, and they are on the wrong side of their own party. There is only one good option to reopen the government, and that option is a bipartisan, clean continuing resolution that we will vote on this morning. The House already passed it with bipartisan support. President Trump is ready to sign it. Senate Republicans voted yesterday in an attempt to pass it. It failed yesterday, and we are going to offer it again today. All it takes to reopen the government is cooperation from just five more Senate Democrats. We picked up three Democrats last night, so there are clearly cracks on their side of the aisle and movement toward our side. That will continue.”