Trump taking responsibility?
“If there is a shutdown I think it would be a tremendously negative mark on the president of the United States. He's the one who has to get people together."---DJT
sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M
On the first day of the 2013 government shutdown, Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-New York, had a message for Republicans who refused to fund the government unless Congress defunded Obamacare: Hostage-taking would not work.
"As we said a thousand times, we are happy to discuss how to fund the government, but not with a gun to our heads," Schumer said on the Senate floor.
"You are not going to get us to give in to extortion," he continued. "You are not going to take, as hostage, millions of innocent Americans and succeed in getting us to do something you want, and we don't, and they don't.
"As we said a thousand times, we are happy to discuss how to fund the government, but not with a gun to our heads," Schumer said on the Senate floor.
"You are not going to get us to give in to extortion," he continued. "You are not going to take, as hostage, millions of innocent Americans and succeed in getting us to do something you want, and we don't, and they don't.
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samueltyler2 · 80-89, M
@sunsporter1649 you show me the proof that they were! By the way, if you are speaking of emergency screening in RTS as required by federal law, when did that law, EMTALA get passed and which president signed it into law?
Roundandroundwego · 61-69
No, you're being punished as a nation, but Dem states have had their funding frozen.
Y'all bipartisan, no never ever any left Americans got this! Enjoy.
Y'all bipartisan, no never ever any left Americans got this! Enjoy.
softspokenman · M
Say something, then do the opposite.
bijouxbroussard · F
Of course not. He probably said this when Obama was president.