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Read highlights of their conversation below:
Speaker Johnson on Democrats Playing Political Games:
“We're really so frustrated and we're just angry about the fact that Democrats are playing games right now. And it's pretty readily apparent that simple facts are that we must have Democrats to reopen the government. And they keep saying breathlessly that it's the Republicans. They're in control of the government. Everybody knows from civics, and if you follow government, you have to have sixty votes in the Senate. We only have fifty-three Republicans. And so it is the Democrats who now voted thirteen times to close the government, to announce on the Senate Republicans voted every now to open. So it's very clear, and everybody wants to know why. Well, it's important to know what they've countered, what they're demanding as ransom to reopen the government, to get paychecks back to federal employees and troops and TSA agents and Border Patrol agents, air traffic controllers and nutrition assistance to young women and elderly, disabled and veterans health care services and all of what they're holding in ransom is the people themselves. Because what they're demanding is $1.5 trillion in new spending. They want $200 billion to be returned for healthcare to illegal aliens, maybe more taxpayer dollars.”
Majority Leader Scalise on Democrat Leaders Caving to the Radical Left:
“I guess the thing that hits us the hardest, and the speakers convey this every day in our press conferences, is that while Democrats are talking openly now that they know they're causing suffering, real suffering, on families, they don't care because they want to exert leverage, leverage for what they can't even articulate, they are scared to death of their socialist Marxists, the most extreme elements of their party, or who they're afraid of. They're doing this shutdown because they're afraid of their own voters. That's how valid and literally, how void of a moral compass the Democratic Party is right now, and so when their minority whip said the open part out loud that, gee whiz, they don't care that they're causing suffering because they want leverage. Who is suffering, I think is important to ask right now, because real families are suffering, and it's getting more real every day.”
RSC Chairman Pfluger on House Republicans Responsibly Funding the Government:
“It's really sad that we're here, because the shield was on the other foot when President Biden was in office and when Pelosi was Speaker, that we had the adult conversation, and we're able to keep our military and Border Patrol and air traffic controllers funded. Something was said by the number two Democrat in the House, and we've all known that Democrats have undertones of anti-family policy, and Republicans are standing firmly for families, who are standing firmly to protect what our greatest asset is. But what Katherine Clark said recently, it's just disgusting to say what she said, which was that she knew that American families were struggling, and yet these are their only times of leverage.”
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