It’s unfortunate that Democratic leadership is now advising its members to walk away from ongoing negotiations to shut down the federal government.https://smucker.house.gov/media/press-releases/smucker-statement-keeping-federal-government-open …
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Our country could lose billions of dollars in economic activity, the health care for millions of children will be jeopardized, and our brave men and women serving in uniform won’t be guaranteed their next paycheck.
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While this legislation includes lots of good policies, I share the opinion of many of my colleagues that CRs are an imperfect mechanism to fund the federal government. But in the face of a government shutdown, the choice is clear. The American people deserve better.
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Lastly, I have been part of numerous bipartisan discussions over the last few months to improve border security and interior enforcement. A fix for DACA has been included in those discussions.
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If Democrats were serious about providing stability for the hundreds of thousands of DACA recipients anxiously awaiting action by Congress, they would vote to fund the government and continue our negotiations.https://smucker.house.gov/media/press-releases/smucker-statement-keeping-federal-government-open …
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You mean the critical agency NIH that your party voted to seriously reduce funding to so you could immensely increase military spending?
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How do you have control of the entire government and still blame Democrats? You can’t even get your own party together
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Instead of finding CHIP and protecting DACA—which you have the votes to do—you’re using them as pawns. Stop playing us for fools
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But go ahead and ignore that there’s also a bipartisan solution on the table, but your impotent party can’t get on the same page
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But y'all in charge.
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Republicans do it all the time why should they be blamed for your inaction
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