Vance, Johnson Thune Vought

Gerren Keith Gaynor10min

Speaker 1

00:00

The principle at stake here is very simple. We have disagreements about tax policy, but you don't shut that government down. We have disagreements about health care policy, but you don't shut the government down. You don't use your policy disagreements as leverage to not paratroops and not have essential first services if government actually function, you don't say the fact that you disagree about a particular tax provision is an excuse for shutting down the People's Government and all the essential services that come along with it. If you look at what Chuck Schumer has said in the past, consistently, it's whatever our disagreements are. Let's negotiate with them. Let's talk about them. Let's figure out a bipartisan solution. But you don't shut the government down. In other words, you don't put a gun to the American people's head and say, unless you do exactly what Senate and House Democrats want you to do. We're going to shut down your government. That's exactly what they're proposing out there. Now we have to remember, they're they're very frustrated. They say that they're very frustrated about the fact that this negotiation has not taken place until today. But if you look at the original, the original thing they did with this negotiation, it was a $1.5 trillion spending package, basically saying to the American people, we want to give massive amounts of money, hundreds of billions of dollars, to illegal aliens for their health care while Americans are struggling to pay their health care bills. That was their initial foray into this negotiation. We thought it was absurd. We told them it was absurd. And now they come in here. It's saying that if you don't give us everything that we that we want. We're going to shut down the government. We think that's preposterous. We think it's totally unacceptable, and we think the American people are going to suffer because these guys will do the right thing. I want to make one final point here. You will hear a lot from Senate Democrats, from House Democrats, about the fact that American health care policy is broken. Well, we know that American health care policy is broken. We've been trying to fix it for the eight months that we've been in office. But every single thing that they accuse about being broken, about American health care is policy the Democrats have supported for the past decade. So if they want to talk about how to fix American health care policy, let's do it. The speaker would love to do it. The Senate majority leader would love to do it. Let's work on it together, but let's do it in the context of an open government that's providing essential services to the American people. That's all that we're proposing to do, and the fact that they refuse to do that shows how unreasonable their position is. I think we're headed to a shutdown because the Democrats won't do the right thing. I hope they change their mind courtesy. I'll let the speaker say the words

Speaker 2

02:18

Thank you, Vice President Vance, want to thank the President as well. They showed strong leadership today. They invited the four leaders over here, because the President has operated in good faith, and he demonstrated that very well. The problem is that Chuck Schumer and leader Jeffries refused to acknowledge the simple facts. Let's review what the simple facts are. As the Vice President was saying, this is the common sense thing to do. This is the right thing to do. This is the simple thing to do. By way of review, the house is getting back to the way the regular appropriations process is supposed to work. 12 separate appropriations bills passed through the the House Appropriations Committee, three off the floor the Senate, doing their work as well. All this in bipartisan fashion. By the way, they passed three bills in the Senate. Those bills don't match up exactly. So for the first time in years since 2019 you have a conference committee that is being constituted between the House and the Senate. This is the way it overcomes the law. They work out the differences. All this is happening in bipartisan fashion. Profits are run out of clocks. September 30 is the end of the fiscal year, so we need an important so what we did in the Republican majority is the right, responsible, simple thing, a clean continuing resolution, a short term non partisan continuing resolution. It's only 24 pages in length. Leader Thune has a copy if you want to see the exhibit. There's nothing partisan in here, no policy riders, none of our big party preferences, because we want to do the right thing by the American people and allow more time for negotiation. Now there's a reason that Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffrey would come out here stop the feed saying that they can't go along with us. They're trying to bring in extraneous issues. They issued a counter proposal. You should go take a look at what they requested, $1.5 trillion in new spending that is unrelated to the ongoing appropriation process. They wanted to, as you said, restore taxpayer funded benefits. Okay, hard working taxpayers in America, they wanted, they want to take your funds and give that benefits to a legal deal, because they want to restore that if we got rid of them. They wanted, they want to prop up left leading media outlets 500 million they flew in on top of that, one and a half trillion dollars on a seven week stop gap funding. We're not going to do that. They know we can't do that, and we never have in the past. During the Biden administration, there were 13 threatened shutdowns. Republicans in the minority did the right thing. We kept the government open, simply asking for the Democrats to do the same again, I want to thank President Trump for the strong, solid leadership. He listened to the arguments and they just wouldn't acknowledge the simple fact, I want to thank the vice president here for showing his leadership as well. If the Democrats make the decision to shut the government down, the consequences are off there. But I. it's absolutely correct that we've never said that we could have an idea. We never believed it is and I want you to remember, when we voted in the house, we passed it out of the house. The house has done its job. We did that almost two weeks ago. Every Democrat in the House except one voted to shut the government down. That is the record. And don't forget this

Speaker 3

05:23

right here, ladies and gentlemen, is what we're talking about. 24 pages, continued resolution to fund the government through November the 21st I don't know where they're saying this is some huge partisan thing. This is something we do fairly routinely, and when the Democrats have the majority on 13 different occasions, they have the majority. President Biden is in the White House. We passed continuing resolutions to fund the government. This is purely simply hostage taking on behalf of the Democrats. Republicans are united, House Republicans, Senate Republicans, President Trump, the House has passed a clean funding resolution to fund the government until November the 21st it's clean, it's bipartisan, and it is short term, but it gives us enough time to finish the appropriations

Unknown Speaker

06:10

process, which is the way we should be funding

Speaker 3

06:13

the government. So Republicans in the House, Senate president united, they passed the bill. This is setting sitting right now at the Senate desk. We could pick it up and pass it tonight, pick it up and pass it tomorrow, before the government shuts down. When we don't have a government shutdown, it's only up to the Democrats, because right now, they are the only thing standing between the American people and the government shut it down. We're all in favor of funding the government. This is something that's been done routinely, 13 different times by the Democrats when they have it before. So it's to me, this is generally hostage taking exercise. We are willing to sit down and work with them on some of the issues

Unknown Speaker

06:51

they want to

Speaker 3

06:53

talk about, whether it's an extension of premium tax credits, reforms, we're happy to have that conversation. But as of right now, this is

Unknown Speaker

07:00

a this is

Speaker 3

07:03

a hijacking of the American people, and it's the American people.

Unknown Speaker

07:08

Can you respond

Speaker 4

07:10

to Senator we want to keep this government open. It is not good for the American people to have the government shutdown for any period of time, we will manage it appropriately. But it is, it is something that can all be avoided. It can all be avoided by accepting a reasonable position, which is what the House has passed, and decisions in the desk, which is to continue to fund the government with a short term continuing resolution. It has never been a good thing. Viewpoint that one and a half trillion dollars is a reasonable amount of spending to be included on a short term. CR, this is hostage taking. It is not something that we are going to accept, and we hope that the Democrats come back through the brink fund this government and allow

Unknown Speaker

07:55

us to move forward. So

Speaker 5

07:56

just to be clear, is there room for negotiation here with Democrats, and you mentioned you believe that we are headed toward a government shutdown. Is the federal government preparing to fire federal workers if the government does well? First of

Speaker 1

08:09

all, we have to keep the civic services functioning as well as possible. The Democrats shut down the government, and Russ has been tasked with making sure that's possible. Now, you asked about negotiations. One of the things I admired about the president, and frankly, the entire team's approach during the conversation we just had with Chuck Schumer and Keith Jeffries was, yeah, they have some crazy ideas, giving taxpayer money to legal aliens for health care. That's a crazy idea, funding transgender surgeries approved. That's a crazy idea, but they had some ideas that I actually thought were reasonable, and they had some ideas that the President thought was reasonable. What's not reasonable is to hold those ideas as leverage and to shut down the government unless we give you everything you want. There were multiple times where leader Jeffries or leader Schumer would say, You know what, we should be doing this, and the President United States would say, yeah, absolutely. Let's have that conversation, but we're going to do it in the context of the People's Government being open. We're not going to let you take the People's Government people's government hostage and then give give you everything you want. And that's really the state of the negotiation. Yeah, let's have a conversation. Let's have a negotiation. We're not going to shut down the government because we will give the Democrats everything that they want.

Speaker 6

09:11

Can you respond to what Senator Schumer says that there were aspects about health care and being for certain people that the President was learning about for the first time at that meeting, and was the President open to a deal on the ACA subsidies?

Speaker 1

09:22

Well, I'm highly skeptical that the President was learning about it for the first time, thanks to Chuck Schumer. But what I will say is, look, we have put a $50 billion rural hospital fund into the actual the big vehicle bill that we passed a few months ago, because we know that under Biden administration's policies, there are a lot of small town hospitals, a lot of rural health care that was getting shut down and it was struck and we're trying to fix that problem. In fact, we're happy to work with Democrats to fix that problem. We want to work across the aisle to make sure that people have access to good health care. We are not going to let Democrats shut down the government take a hostage unless we give them everything that they want. That's not how the People's Government has ever worked. That's certainly not how it's going

Speaker 2

10:01

to work under the Trump administration. This is very important on health care. Their counter proposal, what Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries are demanding is that they claw back the $50 billion that we put into the rural hospital sport structure. They want to take that back. We're not going to pull that. We passed that because we have to to allow for that. Also, if they shut the government down, not only are troops, update federal workers and all the services that everybody relies upon, but the WIC program, the nutrition program, women and children, they will not get that program will not be funded. FEMA will be funded. We have hurricanes off the coast of the United States right now. This is serious business. You have telehealth. Mental health services, all that. It's funded by the government. Chuck Schumer, Jeff Cruz and the Democrats have that way the Democrat shutdown would be damaging for the country. We can't allow leader. She's our leader. You.

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