Political Quotes

“Today is day 23 of the Schumer shutdown of the government, and we just heard the minority leader--right here on the floor--continue to practice the politics of pain, and it is pain felt by the American people. Remember, Senator Schumer is the one who said to the press: Every day gets better for us. I don't know who 'us' is. It is not the American people, not the people who come to work all across the country and the Wyoming National Guard, the people all around America, the people in the Presiding Officer's State and mine, the people who aren't going to get paid. Senator Schumer said: Can't we do anything about it? Yes. You could vote to open the government. Yesterday, they decided, once again, to vote to keep the government shut. Tomorrow, hundreds of thousands of Federal workers are going to miss their paychecks because Chuck Schumer and the Democrats will not vote to open the government. They won't do it. They haven't done it for 23 days. Democrats have now set the record for the longest full-time government shutdown in American history. In previous shutdowns, some of the Agencies stayed open--not now. This is the longest shutdown in the history of the entire U.S.…”