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Here Are The Democrats In Their Own Words Admitting They Are Responsible For The Shutdown.

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	Snap benefits, all the welfare checks, the digital debit cards they have.
	It's all cut off Saturday.
	And the left, from the top to the bottom, is pledging to burn the country down.
	So we were looking, are they going to have a false flag?
	Are they going to motivate aliens?
	They keep saying Trump's going to kill everybody.
	That hadn't happened yet.
	Now they're like, no, we're just going to burn the country down.
	And that will kill the economy.
	And you're like, but the Democrats will get the blame.
	They did it.
	Well, they think their constituents are so illiterate politically that they'll never figure it out, which I think is true.
	I've had a lot of people that actually have college degrees that I know personally say, who's really behind the shutdown?
	I just look at them like, I've been covering it for months as it built up to this.
	And once it started 27 days ago, it's the Democrats.
	You have to have more votes in the Senate for a spending bill.
	They're holding it up.
	They brag they're doing it.
	They're doing it, saying they want to create the pain.
	Each day, our case to fix health care and end the shutdown gets better and better, stronger and stronger.
	I know Democrats are ready to go.
	I know they're ready to come back and do this.
	They're ready to come back and protect things that had passed the legislature.
	They are not willing to come back and let an authoritarian president do whatever he wants.
	That's why shutting the government is really what the Democratic Party wants to do.
	And I follow country, then party, and it's the wrong thing for the country in a period of chaos.
	I refuse to vote to shut our government down.
	And the only reason the Senate can't do it is purely because of Democrats.
	And you had one of your colleagues in the Senate say, this is the only leverage we have.
	People are going to get hurt.
	This is the only leverage we have to get what we want on health care.
	It's a bad look.
	I mean, shutdowns are terrible.
	And of course, there will be, you know, families that are going to suffer.
	We take that responsibility very seriously.
	But it is one of the few leverage times we have.
	If Republicans shut down the government next time Democrats are in charge to extract whatever it is in the last couple of times they want.
	Are you saying that's okay?
	Are you saying that's okay if they do that?
	I mean the Republicans have done this quite a while.
	Yes.
	What did you say about it when they did it?
	I don't know, and I don't care.
	I mean, this is a very dramatic call from that union of federal employees representing hundreds of thousands with a statement today saying, among other things, that it's time for our leaders to start focusing on how to solve problems for the American people rather than on who is going to get the blame for a shutdown that Americans dislike.
	Because when the folks who serve this country are standing in line for food banks after missing a second paycheck because of the shutdown, they are looking for, they aren't looking for partisan spin.
	They're looking for wages that they earn.
	I mean, shutdowns are terrible.
	And of course, there will be, you know, families that are going to suffer.
	We take that responsibility very seriously.
	But it is one of the few leverage times we have.
	They have had months to negotiate.
	And you reopen the government and we lose our leverage and they say, well, you know, we want this, we want that.
	No, there has to be an agreement right now.
	That's what this whole shutdown is about.
	But here's a very simple and important fact that no one should forget.
	We have no ability.
	Republicans do not have the ability to do this on our own.
	It's a simple math problem.
	We need Democrats to help.
	You need 60 votes in the Senate.
	We only have 53 Republicans.
	The Democrats are the ones voting repeatedly to shut down the government.
	Are you surprised that vote after vote, it's just been three Democrats time and again who voted for this going.
	Does that surprise you?
	Yeah, it's Groundhog Day.
	You know, and I'm just saying, and it's not entertaining.
	That's a great movie, but this is sh ⁇ .
	Republicans say this is an admission that Democrats are using the American people as political leverage during this shutdown.
	You want to respond?
	Donald Trump is the president.
	Republicans control the House and the Senate.
	They've made the decision to shut down the government.
	And so point number one, Democrat votes are required to open the government.
	Point number two, they refuse to do it.
	They have now voted 12 times to keep the government closed.
	And they'll have another chance today or tomorrow, maybe multiple times this week.
	And we'll see what they do.
	Once the government is shut down, which it will be in two hours, how do you get out of this?
	There's one Democrat who told CNN there is no way to play this shutdown game and win.
	And Democrats know that because Republicans for the last several shutdowns have been the ones playing this game.
	So how are you going to get out of it if we are in a shutdown?
	Now I know the leader is going to show a poll that says that Democrats will be blamed for the shutdown.
	There are many more polls that show Republicans are blamed.
	The question in that poll is biased.
	biased in the new york times but it's biased if you turn the quote so obviously we were here six months ago and you voted to keep the government open back then and uh and you seem to be against at the time of using a shutdown as a tactical move I have said many times there are no winners in a government shutdown.
	As bad as passing the CR is, as I said, allowing Donald Trump to take even much more power via a government shutdown is a far worse option.
	I think Chuck Schumer has voted for continuing resolutions 13 times in the last four years and he has the opportunity to vote for one again but he's refusing to come to the table.
	I know Democrats are ready to go.
	I know they're ready to come back and do this.
	They're ready to come back and protect things that had passed the legislature.
	They are not willing to come back and let an authoritarian president do whatever he wants.
	Yeah, we haven't shut the government down.
	Donald Trump is the president.
	Republicans control the House and the Senate.
	There are 53 Republicans in the Senate, correct?
	Yes.
	They need 60.
	What does that mean?
	And the only reason the Senate can't do it is purely because of Democrats.
	And you had one of your colleagues in the Senate say this is the only leverage we have.
	People are going to get hurt.
	This is the only leverage we have to get what we want on health care.
	That's a bad look.
	I mean, shutdowns are terrible.
	And of course, there will be, you know, families that are going to suffer.
	We take that responsibility very seriously.
	But it is one of the few leverage times we have.
	It said, what you are asking the Republicans to do right now when they control the White House, the Senate, and the House is effectively what the Democrats could not do when they controlled all three of those heads of government themselves.
	When Democrats controlled Congress and passed the Inflation Reduction Act, it included that specific expiration date.
	Democrats were also the key architects of Obamacare.
	Is this a crisis of your party's own making right now?
	No, it's a crisis because the current leadership in Congress is not willing to step up and take care of working people.
	They are voting yes on what we say here in Washington, a clean CR, a bill to keep the government running for seven weeks, and Democrats are voting no, and for the reasons you just said.
	So how are they shutting down the government?
	First of all, it isn't a clean CR.
	Okay, so this is not simulate to that.
	It's not a clean CR.
	I'm not going into that.
	The point is we should have passed appropriations bills.
	There's a way to run a government and this is not the way to run a government.
	Each day our case to fix health care and end the shutdown gets better and better, stronger and stronger.
	We are simply not going to go along to get along the Republican effort to continue to gut the health care of the American people.
	This is a cost of living issue and it's a life or death issue for millions of Americans.
	So the shutdown continues.
	The Republican Party's not going to pay a trillion and a half dollars to illegal immigrants coming into our country, coming in for a lot of reasons, coming in from prisons, from jails, from all over the place, from Venezuela, many countries.
	We're not going to do that.
	So the shutdown continues.
	It's a Democrat shutdown.
	It's a Schumer shutdown because his career has failed and it's over.
	So Republicans are obviously, their talking point is that Democrats want to give health care to illegal immigrants.
	Now, the Trump administration, when I asked them, what are you talking about?
	They said they're referring to this section in the Democratic Stopgap Funding Proposal.
	It would repeal the section of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act that addresses Medicaid, specifically one provision, reduced federal reimbursement for emergency Medicaid for hospitals.
	And some of that, obviously, goes to people who don't have insurance, including undocumented immigrants.
	So I found out these people, even though the government shut down, because of the ACA, their payments every month are coming directly from the Treasury to their bank accounts.
	So the insurance companies, United Healthcare, Aetna, Molina, Kaiser, they are getting paid right now, mandatory pay every single month, while the federal workers and the military get nothing.
	And so now it's finally making sense.
	This had nothing to do with health care.
	It has to do with dark money from the billion-dollar insurance companies.
	Because keep in mind, if they lose the ACA credits for next year, they're not going to get any of that money.
	They won't get any of that money.
	So all we're asking is to protect health care.
	So many millions of Americans, the most vulnerable among us, rely on government to protect them.
	Rely on government to make sure that the health care cost does not continue to rise.
	We know it's a crisis.
	We know more needs to be done.
	I would love to have a conversation about extending the tax credits for health care.
	Absolutely.
	But I would remind everybody, too, this was designed by the Democratic Party to expire at the end of the year.
	This is not something taken from by the Republicans.
	They were designed to expire.
	Everyone, and at least the talking voice of the Democrats are like, oh, the premiums are going to go up.
	Why don't you hold the insurance companies accountable?
	These are not market rates.
	They're setting the premiums.
	They're the ones that are deciding to keep human beings without health care.
	That's nothing to do with what the government does.
	If anything, the government's making worse.
	The problem is the insurance companies.
	The Democrats, and I'm a Democrat, are the ones that actually in the Senate side shut down the government.
	You know, they did not vote for a continuing resolution, except for three of them.
	One is the Senator of Pennsylvania Federal.
	Here we are in Washington, D.C., and it is shut down.
	But now, here, it's both Pennsylvania's voice here in the U.S. Senate, even though we are in a different party.
	And we both want to talk about why we believe it's so important to reopen this government.
	23 days, 12 votes, Senator Federal and I have both voted to open up the government.
	We agree on that 100%.
	It's really starting to hurt Pennsylvania.
	And Pennsylvanians, air traffic controllers, Border Patrol, and also 2 million recipients of SNAP.
	We've got to get the government open.
	That's our main responsibility.
	And I'd say that regardless of what party's in the majority.
	So they have to get together and stop holding Americans hostage.
	We're about to have people without food come, what, November 1st, which is the end of this week.
	And where we are today, where we are today on the 18th day of a government shutdown, which is depriving millions of federal employees of the paychecks they desperately need and deserve.
	More than a million federal workers are not receiving pay right now.
	Many missed their first full paycheck Friday, while others will feel the loss early next week, depending on the agency.
	Federal workers leading in long lines at this food bank in southern Maryland.
	I would have never thought in a million years that I would have been in this position to have to go to a food bank.
	Democrats are holding the line, right, on the health care issue right now.
	What do you say to those constituents who are worried about feeding their families?
	Well, this is the most cruel thing that the Republicans have done since the shutdown started.
	42 million people are on SNAP.
	That is basic food assistance.
	It is the most effective anti-hunger program that we have ever had.
	And it used to be bipartisan.
	And when Donald Trump can spend $40 billion to bail out Argentina, but refuses to use the funds that are available and make additional funds available to feed 42 million people, one of four kids in this country relies on SNAP benefits on us.
	So this is just cruelty.
	I did a story on SNAP benefit changes that are coming November 1st.
	I did that story yesterday.
	They responded by sharing this memo with us today.
	Let's take a closer look at it.
	Let's look at the second paragraph.
	Considering the operational issues and constraints that exist in automated systems and in the interest of preserving maximum flexibility, we are forced to direct states to hold their November issuance.
	45% of Afghanistan immigrants are on food stamps.
	42% of Somali immigrants.
	34% of every immigrant from Iraq.
	23% of Haitians.
	59% of all illegal aliens are collecting food stamps, meaning that most of the people getting food stamps from the U.S. government and the U.S. taxpayer are not even Americans.
	Think about that.
	These food snap benefits run out.
	In the past, Democrats have argued policy change is not something you should shut down the government over.
	That should be a different place where it is negotiated.
	In what world would Democrats decide to come to the table?
	We've always been at the table.
	They have literally ineffectively shut the doors and shut us out.
	Donald Trump himself said, don't deal with the Democrats.
	Don't even talk to them.
	I have been here for seven years now.
	Every single year, we've passed a bipartisan funding bill when we've passed it, and that is the only way out.
	That's why shutting the government is really what the Democratic Party wants to do.
	And I follow country, then party, and it's the wrong thing for the country in a period of chaos.
	I refuse to vote to shut our government down.
	If Republicans shut down the government next time, Democrats are in charge to extract whatever it is in the last couple of days to want.
	Are you saying that's okay?
	Are you saying that's okay if they do that?
	I mean, the Republicans have done this quite a while, yes.
	What did they say about it back?
	What would you say about it when they did it?
	I don't know, and I don't care.
	I mean, this could be easily solved to go past culture at the past 60.
	To get past 60, you need some Democrats to reopen the government.
	That's what's going to have to happen.
	Senator, you close the government down because you want $1.5 trillion for all these different things that Schumer wants.
	It's obvious to everyone, although maybe you can convince the public that it's the Republicans, but it's not.
	This is in their legislation, their counterproposal on the CR to keep the lights open.
	This is what they want to do.
	They want to spend $24.6 million of your hard-earned dollars as a taxpayer for climate resilience in Honduras.
	They want to spend $13.4 million for civic engagement in Zimbabwe.
	They want to send $3.9 million for LGBTQI plus democracy grants in the Western Balkans.
	They want to spend $2.9 million of your dollars for desert locust risk reduction in the Horn of Africa.
	And $2 million for, quote, organizing for feminist democratic principles in Africa.
	We are not doing that.
	I mean, this is a very dramatic call from that union of federal employees representing hundreds of thousands with a statement today saying, among other things, that it's time for our leaders to start focusing on how to solve problems for the American people rather than on who is going to get the blame for a shutdown that Americans dislike.
	Because when the folks who serve this country are standing in line for food banks after missing a second paycheck because of the shutdown, they aren't looking for partisan spin.
	They're looking for wages that they earn.
	I mean, shutdowns are terrible.
	And of course, there will be, you know, families that are going to suffer.
	We take that responsibility very seriously.
	But it is one of the few leverage times we have.
	They have had months to negotiate.
	And you reopen the government and we lose our leverage and they say, well, you know, we want this, we want that.
	No, there has to be an agreement right now.
	That's what this whole shutdown is about.
	But here's a very simple and important fact that no one should forget.
	We have no ability.
	Republicans do not have the ability to do this on our own.
	It's a simple math problem.
	We need Democrats to help.
	You need 60 votes in the Senate.
	We only have 53 Republicans.
	The Democrats are the ones voting repeatedly to shut down the government.
	And so point number one, Democrat votes are required to open the government.
	Point number two, they refuse to do it.
	They have now voted 12 times to keep the government closed.
	And they'll have another chance today or tomorrow, maybe multiple times this week, and we'll see what they do.
	I think I'm going to be leaving the Democrat Party because this happens too often where they're blaming the opposite party when they know they can do the right thing.
	They need to do the right thing and reopen this government.
	We've seen them vote the right way when they're in power.
	So why the hell can't they vote the right way when they're not in power?
	So get this government back open, get the American people what they deserve.
	And this is basically a summer shutdown from what I've seen.
	We can have a conversation, but the problem is that until they get the green light to actually have a meaningful discussion to try to find common ground and a bipartisan path forward and a willingness to address the damage that Republicans have done to the health, the safety, and the economic well-being of the American people, then of course any informal discussion is going to be not fruitful.
	After this trip, do you think you'll sit down with Hakeem Jeffries and I would.
	I'd be willing to.
	I would have now too.
	You know, I left.
	I said, come on over, just put the government back.
	All they have to do is say yes, and it's over.
	And we start.
	And then we go into a negotiation.
	Look, Obamacare has been terrible.
	We can make it better.
	I'm all for that.
	But they're not.
	And they want to allow many, many illegal people that came into our country illegally from prisons, from mental institutions, from all over the world.
	They want them to get paid, and that's going to hurt the citizens of our country, and I just can't do it.
	So, you're going to offer legislation to not get paid during shutdowns?
	Absolutely.
	I already have a bill.
	You've got a bill that we don't get paid during the shutdown.
	Ron Johnson's got a bill that will never have shutdowns.
	That should pass also.
	But on top of that, what are the Democrats doing?
	This is a clean resolution.
	All we're doing is keeping the funding.
	Actually, the funding is too high.
	It's still the Biden funding.
	But I don't want to shut down government, so I support it.
	But the Democrats, they want a shutdown for whatever reason.
	How is this good for the country?
	Nobody wins with a shutdown.
	The reality is they want to keep the government closed.
	Cruelty from the very beginning of this administration has been the point.
	And the responsible thing to do is to sit down and negotiate a bipartisan path forward to address a very real health care crisis that's upon us right now.
	Open and military.
	Can you do that?
	Can you do those negotiations while the government is reopened?
	I think that's the offer that's been on the table.
	We did hear the House Speaker, Mike Johnson, talking about how, look, he passed a clean CR.
	There's not really much for him to politic in because there's nothing to take out any Republican pork that they pushed into this to take out of it to offer as a way of getting around this.
	Can you reopen the government and have these conversations if there's a willing party on the other side, which it sounds like there is if you talk to some of the Republicans who see this as an issue in their district as well?
	Are you surprised that vote after vote, it just been three Democrats time and again who voted for this going?
	Does that surprise you?
	Yeah, it's groundhog.
	You know, and I'm just saying, and it's not entertaining.
	That's a great movie, but this is Republicans say this is an admission that Democrats are using the American people as political leverage during this shutdown.
	You want to respond?
	Donald Trump is the president.
	Republicans control the House and the Senate.
	They've made the decision to shut down the government.
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