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House Democrats are here. We're ready to pass a four-week spending bill that keeps the government open and will allow the House and the Senate to negotiate an actual agreement that meets the needs of the American people,
Jeffries added
A government shutdown would be devastating for the American people. It would force tens of thousands of Nevada military personnel, union members, law enforcement agents and nurses to work without pay,
Cortez Masto said in a statementIt's an unacceptable, unconscionable and un-American spending bill. That's why House Democrats remain strongly opposed,
said Jeffries, flanked by his top lieutenants, RepsWhen those local communities have put up their share of the dough, doesn't have a project come through, I think that a lot of this is going to start bubbling up from Republican officials,
Warner told The Independent
Overwhelmingly, the people reaching out to our office are ‘thank you for saying that,’
Kaine told The Independent
We had a Hobson's choice, an awful CR bill that had no democratic input, very bad bill,
Schumer told reporters on Thursday eveningUsually uncertainty is bad, but uncertainty is about the most optimistic thing I hear from people these days,
he saidI believe it is the best way to minimize the harm that the Trump administration will do to the American people,
Schumer argued in defense of his decision during remarks on the Senate floor
It’s much, much better not to be in the middle of a shutdown, which [would] divert people from the number one issue we have against these b-----ds,
Schumer said
We have plans to conflict them with all of that,
Schumer saidThe alternative being a government shutdown, that's even worse,
he saidAnd one other thing on a shutdown; on a shutdown, the courts could close or at least be totally, totally disabled,
Schumer continuedShutting down the government gives President Trump and Elon Musk even more power to cherry-pick who is an essential employee, who they want to fire, and what agencies they want to shutter. And a shutdown would force federal courts to slow work on lawsuits against this administration’s illegal actions,
Cortez Masto said
If we go into a shutdown — and I told my caucus this — there’s no off-ramp. The total off-ramp of a shutdown, how you stop a shutdown, is totally determined by the Republican House and Senate,
Schumer told reporters
For what happened during the CR — I think we should do a retrospective,
Gallego said
House Democrats will not be complicit. We remain strongly opposed to the partisan spending bill under consideration in the Senate,
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., and his top two deputies said in a joint statementDemocratic senators should listen to the women,
Pelosi said in a statementHe unilaterally relinquished the biggest point of leverage he has this year. If your strategic analysis ends with you voting for the bill that Mike Johnson, John Thune, Donald Trump, and Elon Musk want, you should rethink your strategy,
Levin told NBC NewsThese are two horrible options. … [Schumer] did what was right. That’s what a leader does,
Hickenlooper told reporters on FridayI think the blowback from the base will be severe,
added one Democratic congressional aide, who was granted anonymity to speak candidly