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Government Shutdown Negotiation

Jasmine Jeare17min

Speaker 1

00:00

Today. Okay, well, we met with the president the first time since all of these issues started. We requested repeated meetings with

Speaker 1

00:17

Speaker Johnson and the president. We have very large difference on health care and on their ability to undo whatever budget we agree to these decisions and impound, as well as talking decisions. And I think for the first time, the President heard our objections, heard why we needed bipartisan bills, their bill has not won iota of democratic that is never how we've done this before. When I was leader, we negotiated eight four times with Republicans, and we never had a shutdown. And so it's up to the Republicans whether they want to shut down or not be made to the President's proposals. Republican leaders have to talk to them about them, and ultimately ease the decision making. And if he will accept some of the things we ask American people are poor on health care and our decisions, he can avoid a shutdown, but there are still large differences.

Speaker 2

01:25

There was a frank and direct discussion with the President of the United States and Republican leaders, but significant and meaningful differences remain. Democrats are fighting to protect the health care of the American people, and we are not going to support a partisan Republican spending bill that continues to gut the health care of everyday Americans, period full stop. There's a Republican caused health care crisis that is causing hospitals and nursing homes and community based health clinics all across the country, in rural America, urban America, small town America, the heartland of America, and black and brown communities throughout this country. And that crisis is happening right now, and that's why we believe there is urgency to both keeping the government open, reaching a bipartisan spending agreement that actually meets the needs of the American people in terms of their health, their safety, their economic well being and quality of life, while also addressing the dangerous Republican health care

Speaker 1

02:33

crisis, he laid out to the president some of the consequences of what's happening in health care. And by his face, and by the way he looked, I think he heard about them for the first time, closing a rural hospital, the fact that so many clinics have closed, and I don't know if we can do this before, but the fact that people will pay $4,000 more a year, $400 more a year, a month, Close to $5,000 more a year on their health care reviews if you don't do anything and people don't know what to do. The average working family can't afford that. I told him how I met a mother who was crying to me because her daughter had cancer, and what has happened with health care, with what they have done, she's going to watch her daughter suffer and maybe die. And so he seemed to, for the first time, understand the magnitude of this crisis. And we hope he'll talk to the Republican leaders and tell them, we need bipartisan input on health care, on decisions into their bill, their bill is not at least they never talked to us. June didn't negotiate with me. Johnson didn't negotiate with Hakeem. And on the key issues, the Appropriations Committee, which is talked about for the smaller bills, different bills, they said the appropriators looked at me and said, kick it up to the

Speaker 2

04:00

board meeting. We're deadly serious about addressing the Republican college health care crisis, because it's a deadly serious issue for the American people. Largest cut to Medicaid in American history, hospitals, nursing homes and community based health funding closing right now. The fact that more than 20 million Americans on the brink of experiencing dramatically increased premiums, copays and deductibles because of the Republican refusal to extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits which benefit working class Americans. And we pointed that out. I pointed that out working class Americans their health care that's what we're fighting to preserve, to defend and to strengthen.

Speaker 3

04:49

Senator, President, receptive. Was there any mention of a shorter cred Plan B? You guys

Unknown Speaker

04:59

probably don't want to leave because the Speaker is coming out afterwards. Soon, very soon. Okay, good. Making

Unknown Speaker

05:38

sure they know you're on

Unknown Speaker

05:41

board. Today's not out here. This is

Speaker 4

06:01

and Jay's not out here. Yeah,

Speaker 5

06:02

good

Speaker 6

06:20

afternoon, everybody. We just had a very frank conversation with the Senate and House Democratic leadership. Look, the principle at stake here is very simple. We have disagreements about tax policy, but you don't shut the 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 pay our troops, to not have essential first services of 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 in 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 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 in this negotiation. We thought it was absurd. We told them it was absurd, and now they come in here as 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. I think we think it's totally unacceptable, and we think the American people are going to suffer because these guys won't do the right thing. Now 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, what we're going to see. I'll let the speaker say a few words.

Speaker 7

08:43

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 is operating in good faith, and he demonstrated that very well. The problem is that Chuck Schumer and Peter Jeffries refused to acknowledge the simple facts. Let's review what the simple facts are. As 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 a bill becomes a law. They work out the differences. All this is happening in bipartisan fashion. Problem is we run out of clock. September 30 is the end of the fiscal year, so we need a little more time. So what we did in the Republican majority is the right, responsible, simple thing, a clean continuing resolution of. term non partisan continuing resolution. It's only 24 pages in. Late 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 Hake Jasmine have come out here. Stop the feed saying that they can't go longer. 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 appropriations 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 for benefits to illegal agents. They want to restore that because we got rid of them. They want to. They want to prop up left leaning media outlets. 500 million on top of that, one and a half trillion dollars on a seven week stop get 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 can have 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 argument 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 on them, and I think it's absolutely correct. And we've never said that was a good idea. We never believed in this. 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 all, right here, ladies and gentlemen, is what we're talking about. 24 pages, continuing resolution to fund the government. June, 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 had the majority. On 13 different occasions, they had the majority. President Biden was in the White House who passed continuing resolutions to fund the government. This is purely and simply hostage taking on the cap on behalf of the Democrats. Publicans are united, House Republicans, Senate Republicans, President Trump, the House has passed a clean funding resolution on 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 process, which is the way we should be funding 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 can pick it up and pass it tonight. We can pick it up and pass it tomorrow before the government shuts down, and then we don't have a government shutdown. It is totally up to the Democrats, because right now, they are the only thing standing between the American people and the government shutting down. We're all in favor of funding the government, and this is something that's been done routinely, 13 different times by the Democrats, and they have the majority. So it's to me, this is generally hostage taking exercise Democrats. We are willing to sit down and work with them on some of the issues they want to talk about, whether it's extension of premium tax credits with reforms, we're happy to have that conversation. But as of right now, this is a, this is a hijacking of the American people, and it's the American people

Speaker 8

13:36

who pay the price. We want to keep this government open. It is not good for the American people that have the government shut down 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 will sit at the Senate desk, which is to continue to fund the government with a short term continuing resolution. It has never been a 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 with a brink from this government and allow us to move forward. Thank you so much, right, Mr. Vice President. So just

Speaker 9

14:23

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 doesn't shut down?

Speaker 6

14:34

Well, first of all, we have to keep essential services functioning as well as possible. The Democrat shut down the government, and Russ has been tasked with making sure that's possible. You asked about negotiations, one of the things I admired about the president, but frankly, the entire team's approach during the conversation we just had with Chuck Schumer and team Jeffries was, you know, yeah, they have some crazy ideas, giving taxpayer money to illegal aliens for healthcare. That's a crazy idea, hunting transgender surgeries in Peru. That's a crazy idea, but they had some ideas that I actually thought were reasonable. They had some ideas that the President thought was reasonable. It's 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 hostage and then get to 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 won't give the Democrats everything that they want on

Unknown Speaker

15:44

not in that meeting.

Speaker 6

15:48

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, beautiful bill 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 struggling. 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

Unknown Speaker

16:27

to work under the Trump administration,

Speaker 7

16:29

Mr. Vice President, was there any mention 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 support structure. They want to take that back. We're not going to do that. We passed that because we have to to allow for that also, if they shut the government down, not only are troops, unpaid federal workers and all the services that everybody relies upon, but the WIC program, the nutrition program, women, infinite 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, you have mental health services. All that is funded by the government. By the government would stop if Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries and the Democrats have their way, the Democrat shutdown would be damaging for the country if we can't allow for

Speaker 3

17:14

Mr. Speaker. Was there any mention of passing a shorter CR? Was there any mention of passing a shorter CR?

Unknown Speaker

17:25

What is going on? Jesus, property.

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