The U.S. government shutdown has entered its 34th day, marking one of the longest political standoffs in recent history. House Speaker Mike Johnson accused Democrats of 'sabotaging' talks and 'playing politics with people’s paychecks.' The deadlock has frozen federal operations, with millions of workers and citizens feeling the heat.
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00:00Officially the second longest shutdown in U.S. history, and we wanted to just have a simple exercise with you this morning to go through just a couple of important facts.
00:09There is such a staggering amount of gaslighting and false information that Democrats are engaging in right now, and so we thought it would be useful to just this morning in a very brief and concise manner separate fact from fiction.
00:23So I'm just going to go through four false claims that you have heard over and over and over, and just explain once more what the simple truth is.
00:33Meredith, let me see the first slide here. Here's the first one. The obviously false claim of the Democrats is that Republicans have closed the government.
00:42I've heard them say this myself. You've all seen it in interviews. They're blaming the shutdown on the Republicans, and it is patently absurd.
00:50The next slide will show you the simple fact, the obvious fact that everyone can see. It is Republicans who have voted to open the government 14 times.
00:59Now, remember how this came about back in September 19th in the House Republicans in the House voted to open the government, the clean continuing resolution to keep everything in operation.
01:10Every Democrat except one in the House voted to close the government, but we still passed it because we have the majority.
01:16And so we sent that bill over to the Senate, and 13 different occasions, 13 times the Democrats have voted to close the government.
01:25Republicans voted yes every time to open it. Republicans in the Senate and the House voted to keep the lights on, to pay service members in our troops who are in harm's way.
01:35Border Patrol agents, TSA, air traffic controllers, all federal workers. They voted to ensure that women, infants and children nutrition programs continue and that SNAP benefits continue to go to the American families who are in need.
01:49By contrast, the Democrats have voted no every single time. And what is outrageous to us is that they have gone on to the Senate floor. Senate Democrats, they have voted no.
01:58They voted to close the government. And then they have gone out to the hall to the nearest camera they can find. And they have looked into the lens and said Republicans are shutting down the government.
02:08It makes no sense. It's the most extreme example of gaslighting in the history of American politics. And many in the media have allowed them to get away with that. It's shameful.
02:21Let me show you another obviously false claim. Obviously false claim number two of the Democrats is that Republicans are being unreasonable.
02:31Well, here's the fact. Let me see the next one. The fact is very simple. Republicans are refusing to accept the Democrats outrageous demands.
02:39Now, why do we say that? Remember, the Republicans, Republicans passed a clean, continued resolution. It was nonpartisan. It was a simple bill that would open the full government.
02:50And we could do that today. If they would pass that today with zero strings attached, everything would be flowing again and the government would work.
02:58Importantly, remember that we offered that CR in good faith. Why do we say that? Because it was it was it was offered after a bipartisan, bicameral negotiation
03:08between both chambers, because you see you had the appropriators, Republican and Democrat appropriators who got together and decided they agreed on the need for a short term CR so that they could continue their negotiations on the full year funding bills.
03:25But this is something Democrats have spoken passionately about and acted upon many times in the past.
03:30We've recounted here every day 13 different occasions in the Biden administration. They passed continuing resolutions.
03:36They did it most recently in March of this year when Chuck Schumer, 10 Senate Democrats, including the leader Schumer voted for the CR and told us how important that was, though.
03:47The CR that's on the table right now and has been sitting there for 45 days is nearly identical to the one that they voted on in March.
03:56But shockingly, shockingly, shockingly, this is the big thing. In addition to their refusal to support the CR and reopen the government, the Democrats have had the audacity to also demand something new.
04:09They demanded one point five trillion dollars with a T in new spending obligations in exchange for the simple funding resolution.
04:18They filed on paper in the Senate record back in September and it still sits there as their kind of proposal.
04:24They would spend one and a half trillion dollars of your taxpayer funds included in that is nearly two hundred billion dollars of taxpayer funds that they want to use to restore free health benefits to illegal aliens.
04:37They want to spend billions in wasteful left wing spending projects in foreign countries on things like LGBTQ plus awareness in the Horn of Africa, all sorts of things.
04:50I could give you a long list and we've said it here before.
04:52They want to spend a half a billion dollars to prop up left leaning news organizations.
04:56And shockingly, in that same proposal as their ransom for reopening the government, they want to cut 50 billion dollars from the rural hospital fund that the Republicans just got signed into law on July 4th.
05:10That is the bill that they filed that shut down the government.
05:14And every American can see that for themselves.
05:17So their claim about Republicans being responsible is laughable.
05:21Let me go to the third one.
05:23False claim number three.
05:25Democrats are fighting for health care.
05:27You've heard this over and over and over.
05:29Let me say something very simply about this false claim.
05:32It is the Democrats who created Obamacare.
05:35It is the Democrats who did that without any Republican votes.
05:38It's the Democrats who, by extension, have cost the American taxpayers and people who have health insurance.
05:46Have made their costs skyrocket.
05:49It is their policies that made that happen.
05:52And so instead of reforming it, the Democrats don't reform Obamacare.
05:56They want to subsidize it.
05:58They want to spend more taxpayer dollars that, by the way, goes mostly to insurance companies, which makes the cost rise further.
06:05That's the Democrats plan when they when they passed Obamacare in 2010.
06:09They call it the Affordable Care Act.
06:11We know the truth is exactly the opposite.
06:13By some estimates, premiums have risen 60% in many categories since they passed that bill into law.
06:20Now, the fact is the opposite.
06:23Republicans are the ones fighting to save health care.
06:28Why?
06:29It's not just talking points to us.
06:30We do this.
06:31We have ideas and we have already implemented ideas and measures to reduce costs, increase access and quality and eliminate fraud, waste and abuse.
06:42Now, why do we say it's not just a talking point?
06:44Why do we say the Republican Party is the only one advancing common sense reform solutions?
06:50Because we've proven it.
06:52We did that in the big, beautiful bill, the working families tax cut.
06:56We took a look at Medicaid and we took on that challenge.
07:00We took action to reduce fraud, waste and abuse in Medicaid.
07:04We got able bodied young men without dependents off the program.
07:06We got illegal aliens off the program and we saved $185 billion just to start.
07:12We got millions of ineligible enrollees off the program and it preserved it.
07:16It strengthened Medicaid for the people who rely upon it, which is the elderly, disabled and young pregnant women, as we always use in an example.
07:24No, it's not about health care.
07:26That is a false claim and everybody knows it.
07:28Everyone in America and certainly everybody in this room understands that this is about something else.
07:35What this is about is about fear.
07:38The Schumer shutdown was never about health care.
07:40That's a distraction.
07:41It's a red herring, as we say in debate club.
07:44Okay, this is about fear.
07:46And what is the fear?
07:48The resolution on the COVID era Obamacare subsidy issue was always going to be slated for debate in October, November and December.
07:54Everybody knows that and every Democrat knows that.
07:57It's an issue that's too complex to be solved on a short term funding measure like a CR.
08:02They know that very well.
08:03This is about fear.
08:05Everybody in the country is watching the elections that will happen tomorrow.
08:08You've got big elections in New Jersey and Virginia and the governor's races and attorney general's races, etc.
08:14But all the attention is focused primarily on New York City.
08:18Why?
08:19Because the fear, the fear that Mamdani and all that he represents will be risen to power, that he'll be elected the mayor of America's largest city, the once cradle of capitalism, that we're going to have a Marxist, a communist running the largest city.
08:36Now, now this terrifies the establishment old guard Democrats in Washington and the leaders of both chambers are among those most terrified.
08:46They're both from New York.
08:47Leader Hakeem Jeffries is the Democrat in the House and in leader Schumer in the Senate.
08:52They're both from New York and they're terrified.
08:54You've watched their actions carefully.
08:56Many of you have not reported on it enough.
08:58Poor Hakeem Jeffries had to ultimately, finally, he was forced to endorse Mamdani.
09:04And he's terrified that he now owns the results of that.
09:07Chuck Schumer has been dancing around the issue, but he knows he's darn if he does, darn if he doesn't.
09:11They're both terrified.
09:13And so that is the fear.
09:14This is a fact and you should print it this way.
09:17The Schumer and Jeffries and their colleagues fear political retribution from the far left activists in their party more than they fear the consequences of keeping the government closed for weeks on end.
09:31They fear that personally for their own political future, and they care more about that than they care about SNAP benefits low into hungry families about air traffic controllers being paid so they can keep the skies safe border patrol troops and all the rest.
09:47It pales in comparison, and this is a simple summary.
09:50That is a simple fact.
09:52It is extremism on the left.
09:54That is the direct cause of American suffering right now.
09:58One more, finally, one more fact.
10:02The obviously false claim number four this morning is that Republicans are responsible for all this pain.
10:08It's just a nonsensical statement.
10:11It's a nonsensical statement because the fact is very clear.
10:14This is about math.
10:16Republicans need at least seven Democrats to join us.
10:21We only have 53 Republicans in the Senate.
10:23It takes 60 votes to reopen the government in the Senate.
10:26The House did his job September 19th.
10:29We're waiting on the Senate to get this done.
10:31Leader John Doon and the Republicans have bent over backwards.
10:34They've done everything they can.
10:35You saw his frustration and his anger boil up on the floor at the end of last week.
10:39A normally calm, you know, pretty steady leader, very steady leader.
10:45We're all angry about this because we're sick of what they're doing.
10:48They're using the American people as pawns, as leverage, and that is the word that so many of them have used.
10:54We could name Senator after Senator, House member after House member from the leadership ranks all the way down to rank and file on the Democrat side.
11:01They have admitted openly they're using the American people as leverage in this political game.
11:06They're motivated out of fear.
11:08They want to show a fight to the radical left so they don't lose their political seats and they're willing to make the American people suffer for it.
11:15That is the fact.
11:16This is about math.
11:18Republicans have to have at least seven Democrats.
11:20We need five more, five more moderate, centrist, common sense people who care more about the constituents they serve in the country that they supposedly serve than their own political futures and the retribution they'll receive from the Marxist Mondami communist left in the party if they do the right thing here.
11:38I wish these weren't the facts.
11:40I take no pleasure in telling you this.
11:42It is disgusting to us, but there's no other way to candy coat this, to make it any prettier than it is.
11:49So we're now entering the fifth week of this Democrat shutdown, and it's for one reason.
11:54Democrats made a deliberate choice to keep the government closed.
11:58The shutdown will only end when those same Democrats make a deliberate choice to open it.
12:04The entire country is calling and waiting on just five more Senate Democrats to come to their senses and do the right thing.
12:11We are pleading with them to do so.
12:13This is not a game.
12:14The solution is sitting right in front of them.
12:17We are going to pass the clean CR, end this madness, and open the government.
12:22You'll hear next from our majority leader in the House, Representative Steeves Glees.
12:30Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
12:32As the Democrats continue to impose suffering on the American people.
12:37And by the way, that's their term.
12:39They've continued to talk about real suffering that they know they're causing.
12:44Again, they say to get leverage over what they still can't articulate.
12:50But as Democrats continue to impose this suffering, their attempts to mislead the American people are working overtime.
13:00The speaker laid out a number of those statements that Democrats have made over and over again to try to mislead the American people.
13:08And it doesn't just end there.
13:10Over the weekend, Chuck Schumer tweeted out, quote, Republicans have done everything in their power to raise your health care costs and kill snap for millions of hungry Americans.
13:25Now, Chuck Schumer knows good and well what he said there is not only misleading, it's patently false.
13:35I tried to give it Pinocchio awards, but I don't want to associate the character Pinocchio with Chuck Schumer in that statement.
13:47Let's start with the first half of what he said there raising health care costs.
13:54Who is the party that's done that the health care law of the land?
13:58And, you know, not sure if Chuck Schumer's been updated on the law, but Obamacare is the law of the land in health care.
14:07And we can all go look at the votes going back the last 10 years.
14:12It's been partisan votes all the way through for Obamacare.
14:16They called it, as the speaker said, they named it the Affordable Care Act.
14:20It's been anything but.
14:22Costs for families are up over 80% in their premiums because of Obamacare.
14:30And what have they tried to do over and over again?
14:32They've tried to mask the cost.
14:34They haven't tried to work with Republicans to fix it.
14:37They've tried to mask the cost.
14:39Hundreds of billions of dollars of bailouts to insurance companies.
14:43Not helping families get better options.
14:46Democrats have never cared about that.
14:49And in fact, when we, as we pointed out multiple times, passed provisions in the work and families tax cuts, the cost share reductions that were scored by CBO to lower premiums by double digits for families.
15:05It passed the House and it was Democrats who worked overtime to get that removed in the Senate.
15:13They are still bragging about it today on the Democrat Budget Committee's website that they removed a provision that would have lowered premiums for families.
15:23So who is it that's raising costs for families?
15:26Of course, it's been Democrats every step of the way.
15:29And the only thing scored to by CBO to reduce premiums on families that have passed either House.
15:36The Democrats worked overtime to get that removed.
15:40The other half of that, he talks about SNAP.
15:43And of course, we know there have been votes in the House and Senate to save the SNAP program from cuts from being zeroed out.
15:54It's called the clean CR past the House with Republican only votes, primarily with Democrats uniting to try to kill it.
16:05But luckily, we have the majority in the House and you go over to the Senate and we know they have a 60 vote requirement.
16:10And Democrats have over and over and over again voted in lockstep with Chuck Schumer to block SNAP benefits.
16:20There is a vote you can go look at every day that they've taken that vote that would have opened the government, fully funded SNAP or shut it down.
16:31And it's Republicans who are voting yes.
16:33And it's Democrats who are voting no.
16:35And Chuck Schumer has been leading that charge.
16:38And then he votes no to kill the SNAP program, to create tremendous uncertainty, to create millions of hungry Americans, to use his own word.
16:48Chuck Schumer has voted to put those millions of hungry Americans in that situation.
16:54And then he walks out to the microphone, as the speaker said, and then he tries to blame it on somebody else.
17:01People are sick and tired of it.
17:02We're surely sick and tired of it.
17:04But the American people are suffering to use the Democrats term while those same Democrats that impose the suffering are going out and trying to mislead and lie to the American people and blame somebody else for the very votes they cast.
17:22It is votes in Congress that have caused a government shutdown.
17:27That's why we're here.
17:29You either vote yes to open the government or you vote no to keep it shut down.
17:35And the votes are public record.
17:38And the same people that are voting to shut down the government to deny food to families are then walking out and trying to lie to the American people and blame somebody else for their actions.
17:48The American people won't have it.
17:50The American people will not be lied to.
17:53It's time that Chuck Schumer and his Democrat colleagues end this madness.
18:00Let's open the government back up again and get to a negotiation on the differences we have.
18:05Our whip, Tom Emmer.
18:10Today marks day 34 of the Democrat shutdown.
18:16Here are some headlines from over the weekend highlighting the pain the Democrats are inflicting on the American people each day that they prolong this mess.
18:26Quote, Government workers, SNAP recipients feel the pain as the government shutdown drags on.
18:32Quote, Staffing shortages mire air travel as shutdown stretches on.
18:38Quote, Government shutdown threatens to delay home heating aid for millions of low income families.
18:45And that's just to name a few.
18:48Democrats have now voted against opening the government 14 times.
18:53That's 14 times that they voted against our military.
18:57That's 14 times that they have voted against federal law enforcement officers, air traffic controllers and TSA agents.
19:0514 times they have voted against low income Americans who rely on programs like SNAP and WIC.
19:13Why?
19:14Not because they actually care about lowering the cost of health care like they claim.
19:20Just look at the 68 page counter proposal they filed in the Senate.
19:26Only one and a half pages reference health care.
19:31The other 66 outline their radical policy priorities like billions of dollars for foreign climate projects or 500 million to prop up leftist media outlets.
19:43The fact of the matter is that the Democratic Party is not fighting for you, the American public.
19:51They shut the government down to pick a fight with President Trump and to score points with Kami Mandami and Omar Fada.
19:57The Omar Fada wing of their party.
20:00The Democrats have become kamikaze politicians who are so focused on winning some kind of political game that they've justified blowing up everything in their wake, including the livelihoods of their own constituents.
20:15Democrat Senator John Fetterman said it best on CNN yesterday.
20:19Quote, we are hurting the very people that we fight for and now we're getting nothing for them if we continue to keep our government shut down.
20:29Quote, this is wrong, he went on to say, and he's exactly right.
20:34It's past time for Democrats to end the political games, pass our clean CR and reopen the government for the people they were elected to serve.
20:43Back to the speaker.
20:45Questions.
20:47Manu, you get it first every time.
20:49This is not fair.
20:51Last week, you came here to these mikes and you were very critical of Joe Biden's.
20:56He's the autopilot.
20:57He's pardoned.
20:58He said he didn't even know he was pardoning.
21:00The last time in 60 minutes, the president, President Trump, admitted not knowing he pardoned a crypto billionaire guilty to money laundering.
21:10Does that also concern you?
21:12I don't know anything about that.
21:13I didn't see the interview.
21:14You have to ask the president about that.
21:15I'm not sure.
21:16Yes, ma'am.
21:17Last week on Friday, you said that if there was any way to fund SNAP, that the Trump administration would be had to do it.
21:22Now, two judges have come out saying that it is likely illegal to stop SNAP payments.
21:27One is giving the Trump administration until today to make a decision of how to move forward.
21:31What have you told President Trump about?
21:33How do you want him to move forward?
21:35Well, he and I talked about this quite a bit over the weekend, multiple times.
21:38The president is desperate for SNAP benefits to flow to the American citizens who desperately rely upon it.
21:44He has bent over backwards, as you know, to get the troops paid, to keep WIC funding going.
21:48He's found creative solutions.
21:50The SNAP situation, as Secretary Rollins and I explained at the press conference on Friday, has legal impediments to that.
21:57It was understood and we got legal advice.
21:59And it made sense to me that the contingency fund and SNAP could not be used unless the underlying funds were flowing.
22:06As Secretary Rollins relayed to you, this is pretty commonsensical.
22:10The contingency fund is an extra, in layman's terms, it's an extra fund that is there, for example, if you have an unexpected natural occurrence, like a hurricane or something.
22:18And SNAP benefits are flowing, but you have a subset of the population that needs additional benefits, then the contingency fund would go.
22:25The way we always understood it was the contingency fund could not be used legally if the underlying fund was suspended.
22:32And that's what's happened in the CR.
22:34The Democrats voted to stop SNAP payments.
22:36So you have two courts, two liberal courts, Obama judges, as I understand it, who've who said, no, that's not right.
22:42Get them paid. Well, it's more complicated than that, because, as you know, it costs over nine billion dollars to fund SNAP for a month.
22:49And we only have, I think it's five point two billion dollars in the contingency fund.
22:54So you have a big shortfall. So it's not as easy as hitting go send on a computer.
22:59You've got to go through and recalculate partial payments to the 42 million recipients of the program.
23:05That puts a huge burden on states and on the feds to try to figure that out in short order.
23:10So what the president said logically was, OK, your honor, if you're saying we can do it, I'll go for that, because I want SNAP to go to the people.
23:17It's the Democrats that stopped it, not us. So tell me how to do it, because I have all my personnel here in the office, the legal minds and the and the number crunchers.
23:26And they're trying to figure out how this can be done. Give us some guidance. We're glad to do it.
23:30So that's where we are at this impasse right now.
23:32If you noted, the president's not appealing the decision he wants to have to be done, but he doesn't see the mechanism to do it.
23:37So you have Treasury, you have USDA, you have the other agencies involved that are working overtime, literally around the clock over the weekend, trying to figure out how to do this.
23:46And and but but everybody needs to know it's not the full amount, assuming they could get this done and processed.
23:53The court acknowledged that thanks to the president for saying that they wanted to do it.
23:57Everybody's on the same page here. We just don't know how it's unprecedented.
24:00This has never happened before in this way. And so we're hopeful.
24:04But I would just say this looping us back to how we began the easiest way to get full snap payments to everybody who is eligible.
24:11So the Democrats that come in here and vote to reopen the government on a clean, nonpartisan CR.
24:17It's a game that's being played and real people are being hurt.
24:19And the administration gets all sorts of accolades and appreciation from us for bending over backwards, trying to make sure people are not feeling the pain and that the harm is mitigated as much as possible.
24:30Yes, sir.
24:31Do you agree with President Trump that now is the time to get rid of the Senate filibuster?
24:34You're saying this has gone on too long.
24:37So I talked to the president multiple times over the weekend, I mentioned, and of course, the filibuster came up.
24:43This is a Senate matter. It has nothing to do with the House.
24:45Everybody wants to know what my opinion is.
24:47I mean, my opinion is irrelevant.
24:49I understand desperate times call for desperate measures.
24:52I also understand that traditionally we've seen that as an important safeguard.
24:56I mean, I've obviously shared my thoughts with the president on that.
25:00As much as I have wanted to blow up the filibuster sometime as a House member when we were not getting what we wanted done in our agenda,
25:07I hear my Senate Republican colleagues, some of the most conservative people in Congress, who say it's an important safeguard.
25:18It's it's it prevents us. It holds us back from the Democrats worst impulses.
25:22What would the Democrats do if they had no filibuster impediment, no speed bump at all?
25:27They've already told us they would pack the Supreme Court.
25:30You go from nine to 13 or 15 or 17 or however many liberals they can pack on the court.
25:34You would have D.C. and Puerto Rico be made into states, which would give four additional Democrat senators there in the count and make us a permanent minority.
25:43I guess that would be their calculation. You would see massive restriction of the Second Amendment, Second Amendment rights.
25:49You'd see them federalize elections so they could take over and manipulate things in the red states.
25:54I mean, there's a lot of abuses that could come. And so that's the caveat. That's what they're working through.
25:58And I, you know, I speak frankly and honestly with the president and he's very passionate about this.
26:04We're all very passionate. I think what you see in this this this debate we're having on our own side is a reflection of the anger that we feel, the real desperation that we feel because we want the government to be reopened.
26:14We want to serve the American people as best we can. And any hindrance to that is something that everybody's looking at very carefully.
26:21Again, not a House issue. It's a Senate issue. And we'll see how that's resolved. Chad.
26:26Good morning. Hasn't the ship sailed on the CR? November 21st, that's 18 days. Isn't it time to do something new?
26:34We're very mindful of the calendar. We're very frustrated by that.
26:38It's part of the reason we're so angry about this because they're eating up the clock and the Democrats know how much more we have to do here this year.
26:44But we cannot do it if the government's not opened and not serving the people.
26:48And so this is a very important matter. It's something that we're giving all of our attention to.
26:53Our leaders will go and meet on the calendar right now. We watch it every day.
26:58But the simplest way to get all these issues resolved, health care, everything else to get it all finished up for the year is for them to reopen the government and make sure people are not hurting instead of Democrats over here playing political games to cover their own backside.
27:14I hope the election tomorrow is a change, a sea change in all this.
27:18I hope that after everybody votes and they go in their room and they make the calculation that, well, maybe maybe we won't have to hold that line anymore.
27:25Maybe maybe they won't punish us. Maybe it won't affect turnout.
27:28And in our states and these elections, maybe after tomorrow, they'll come to their common senses again and and do the right thing.
27:35We certainly pray that is true. And Republicans will be on the job every single day serving our constituents, helping guide them through the chaos that the Democrats shut down has created.
27:44And pray, pray that they do the right thing and and stop making the American people suffer because of this nonsense.
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