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Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) joined House Republican leadership on day 15 of the Democrat government shutdown to discuss President Trump’s decisive leadership to pay our troops and the Democrats’ shameful refusal to do the same.

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

Whip Emmer: “If Chuck Schumer and the Democrats had things their way, more than 1 million service members would not get paid today. Thankfully, our commander in chief stepped up where the Democrats have refused by reallocating funds to ensure our troops received their hard-earned paychecks today. Thanks to President Trump, military families across the country will have the resources they need to continue making ends meet just a little bit longer. Yet, what has been the Democrats’ response? Representative Madeleine Dean told CNN yesterday, ‘this is not the way to run a government.’ Making sure our troops get paid is not the way to run a government? You know what is actually not the way to run a government, Representative Dean? Holding the American people hostage over your $1.5 trillion wishlist of radical demands. Clearly, the Democrat party of today is not your grandfather’s party. They care about one thing and one thing only: appeasing the radical, pro-terrorist wing of their base, and they will inflict the maximum amount of pain on the American people to do it. But it doesn’t have to be this way. Republicans have a nonpartisan government funding bill ready in the Senate to be sent to President Trump’s desk immediately. We could end the Democrats’ shutdown chaos today if they would do the right and reasonable thing by passing our clean CR. It contains zero partisan policy riders. No gimmicks. It’s the same spending levels that Democrats supported just six months ago and that they passed 13 times under the Biden administration. But nine times now, nine times, the Democrats have refused – shutting the government down in the process and forcing Americans to pay the price, all so they can gallivant around the Capitol making ridiculous videos, childish videos, scream at Capitol police officers who aren’t getting paid by the way, and buy time until their Hate America rally on Saturday on the mall. It’s despicable and it’s wrong. We can only hope that they come to their senses and that the madness ends soon. Until then, our message remains the same: stop playing political games, pass our clean CR, and reopen the government for the people you were elected to serve.”