members in the coast guard, letting them know he finds it unacceptable they re having to rely on food pantries and donations, telling them that their leadership has their back and, yeah, they re going to continue to be unpaid week after week after week. this is the first time that u.s. coast guard service members have ever gone without pay through any of the shutdowns we ve been through as a country. this one appears to be indefinite. this is now week five. joining us now is senator sherrod brown. senator, it s really good to have you here. thanks for coming in. thank you, rachel. i am i feel like the more i talk to people who have clear eyes and can see the horizon on the shutdown thing, the more i am very worried that it might have no end, that there might not be a way to end it, nor any intention to end it on the part of this administration or congressional republicans. i think that, i mean, it s clear that mitch mcconnell s got to do his job. donald trump he thrives on th
representatives, the house voted overwhelmingly. look at the vote, 357-22. that vote tonight in the house tot express support for our mo important military alliance, nato. and to block any effort by president trump to destroy nato by pulling the united states out of it unilaterally, that s a policyal outcome he made multip runs at over the last year if anonymous senior trump administration officials talking to the new york times are to be believed but that vote to support nato and to block trump from pulling out of it including every democrat who voted in the house tonight and it includes 149 house republicans. who crossed over to vote with the democrats and against the president on that. 149 republicans. only 22 republicans voted no. that newss arrived tonight alo withgh word that in the house democrats have just added a whole bunch of aggressive progressive membersgg of congre to the crucial government oversight committee.
build a wall between us and mexico. and maybe he does want that and maybe senate republicans want that more than anything, but just putting up that bill over and over again is not a path that is ever going to end this shutdown. tomorrow, indivisible groups across the country will host a call-in day, asking people to call their own u.s. senators, just their home state u.s. senators, to urge them all, all senators, republican and democrat, to vote for the bill that s already passed the house that would just cleanly re-open the government with no other changes, with no other policy commitments. we will see if that national call-in day by indivisible makes a difference. i don t know. ultimately here, though, something will have to happen, right? i mean, however much the president and congressional republicans really want to build a wall between us and another country, presumably they will have to agree to re-open the government at some point while they otherwise wage the fight to try to ac
senior trump officials talking to the new york times are to be believed. that vote to support nato and block trump from pulling out of it, that includes every democrat who voted in the house tonight and it includes 149 house republicans who crossed over to vote with the democrats and against the president on that. 149 republicans. only 22 republicans voted no. that news arrived tonight along with word that in the house democrats have just added a whole bunch of aggressive progressive members of congress to the crucial government oversight committee. the government oversight committee, if you want to picture this, that s the committee that has oversight over kind of everything. it s chaired by the congressman elijah cummings, who will likely end up being one of the highest profile, most powerful and high-impact democrats in washington once his oversight committee is up and running and firing on all cylinders. a key part of that is finding out who his members are. the new members of hi
every single senator voted for that actual language, that the house will probably pass again tomorrow or thursday. it will come back to us. all of us voted for it again. we all just voted for it a month, five weeks ago before the shutdown, before when pence promised republicans at a lunch that the president would sign it. then the president changed his mind. when, you know, when the right-wing machine went in to overdrive. but if we do that, if the president vetoes it, maybe he would, maybe he wouldn t at that point. we could override it. i would think there is enough pressure on enough house members. they go to airports, they talk to tsa agents. they ve studio in line with their constituents, unless they have some back entrance i don t know about. they stood in line for an hour waiting to get through tsa because there are fewer agents now in many cases because they re overworked and not paid. they have to arrange child care. they have to take days off sometimes to do all that. i thi