Tag: Government Shutdown

Murphy: Democrats Must Be United in ICE Funding Fight

Buck Banks

“I will say in the past, Republicans have just waited us out because they thought that we would break. And we have broken in the past. And this would be, I think, a very dangerous moment for us to do that because of the very specific moral question being put to the nation: Does the president of the United States get to murder American citizens? The answer to that question has to be no, but it likely will only be no if we’re in a position to win this fight.”

— Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT), quoted by the New Republic, on blocking funding for ICE.

A Rationale for a Shutdown

Buck Banks

“I want to be very clear about what I am saying here. Donald Trump is corrupting the government — he is using it to hound his enemies, to line his pockets and to entrench his own power. He is corrupting it the way the Mafia would corrupt the industries it controlled. You could still, under Mafia rule, get the trash picked up or buy construction materials. But the point of those industries had become the preservation and expansion of the Mafia’s power and wealth. … This is what Trump is doing to the government. This is what Democrats cannot fund. This is what they have to try to stop.”

— Ezra Klein gives Democrats the rationale for allowing a government shutdown.

Biden Campaign: Trump Is Pushing GOP Toward Shutdown

Buck Banks

“House Republicans are gleefully letting Donald Trump function as their chief political strategist at the expense of American families. Trump’s behavior is shameful, but unsurprising from someone who has demonstrated he couldn’t care less about the American people.”

— A spokesman for President Biden’s campaign hit House Republicans for heeding Donald Trump’s calls to dig in on a government shutdown if they don’t get “everything,” The Hill reports.

A GOP Lunatic Calls the GOP Lunatics Lunatics

Buck Banks

“This is not conservative Republicanism. This is stupidity. The idea that we’re going to shut the government down when we don’t control the Senate, we don’t control the White House. These people can’t define a win. They don’t know how to take yes for an answer. It’s a clown show. You keep running lunatics. You’re going to be in this position.”

— Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY), on CNN.