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Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) joined House Republican leadership on day two of the Democrat government shutdown to discuss its impacts and to urge Senate Democrats to pass the House-passed, clean continuing resolution.

Click here or above to watch Whip Emmer’s remarks.

Whip Emmer: “Our men and women in uniform. Veterans. Air traffic controllers. Farmers and ranchers. Federal workers and their families. Americans who rely on telehealth and home care services. These are just a few of the victims of the Chuck Schumer-Democrat shutdown. All because Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries care more about appeasing the radical members of their party than working in good faith to keep the government open. They’re trying to valiantly claim that they’re doing it to fight for Americans’ health care, but their 1.5 trillion-dollar wish list – which slashes funding for rural health care, as you’ve heard from both the Speaker and the Majority Leader, while giving taxpayer-funded health care to illegal aliens – tells a much different story. The American people see their political charade for what it is. The good news is, Democrats still have time to do the right and reasonable thing. Because Republicans have done our job – there is a clean, nonpartisan continuing resolution ready in the Senate to send to President Trump’s desk right now. The question is: How long? How long will Democrats hold the American people hostage to play their political games? I hope they come to their senses soon. Until then, we will force them to go on the record about their self-inflicted shutdown every single day, and the consequences will be theirs to own and only theirs.”