he had no problem to prevent garland from being considered and yet, yet, he ll say i have no power to bring these bills to the floor. that is so lame and the excuse he gave. we are a separate branch of government. i need to remind mitch mcconnell that the congress is a separate branch of government and what we should do and what he should do, because there are two people to stop the shut down right now, one is the president who is a hostage taker having taken 800,000 people hostage, not to mention the thousands and thousands of contractors, he is a hostage taker. we do not negotiate with hostage takers. the other person to end the shutdown is mitch mcconnell because he has the power. he won t do it. everyone should be asking why aren t you going to use the power you had no problems to force $1.5 trillion tax cut for the richest people in our country and basically screwing the middle class, why don t you do it? because the president won t sign it.
court with gorsuch and kavanaugh. he had no problem to prevent garland from being considered and yet, yet, he ll say i have no power to bring these bills to the floor. that is so lame and the excuse he gave. we are a separate branch of government. i need to remind mitch mcconnell that the congress is a separate branch of government and what we should do and what he should do, because there are two people to stop the shut down right now, one is the president who is a hostage taker having taken 800,000 people hostage, not to mention the thousands and thousands of contractors, he is a hostage taker. we do not negotiate with hostage takers. the other person to end the shutdown is mitch mcconnell because he has the power. he won t do it. everyone should be asking why aren t youi going to use the power you had no problems to force $1.5 trillion tax cut for the richest people in our country and basically screwing the middle class, why don t you
hope senator mcconnell will put it on the floor. i hope the senators will put it on the floor and send it to the president. the president asked us to come down and meet tomorrow at 10:30 and we ll do that. we ll have a discussion. at 11:30. excuse me. this is going to be the news, i m sure. the fact of the matter is we ll go down there. we ll talk. and we re reasonable people and try to come to an agreement on which we can all agree. but holding 800,000 people hostage, holding the people s government hostage, is not what they expect. not what they want. so hopefully senator mcconnell will put that bill on the floor
quote. let me repeat that first line. quote, no matter how strongly one feels about an issue, you shouldn t hold millions of people hostage, close quote. he was right, you shouldn t. but that is exactly what he and his party are doing right now. here s something else that senator schumer said in 2013. quote, i believe in immigration reform. what if i persuaded my caucus to say i m going to shut down the government, i m going to not pay our bills unless i get my way? it s a politics of idiocy, of confrontation, of paralysis, close quote. politics of idiocy. his words, not mine. here s one more quote from senator schumer in 2013 during that government shutdown. quote, we believe strongly in immigration reform. we could say we re shutting down
one feels about an issue, you shouldn t hold millions of people hostage, close quote. he was right. you shouldn t. but that is exactly what he and his party are doing right now. here is something else that senator schumer said in 2013. quote, i believe in immigration reform. what if i persuaded my caucus to say i m going to shut down the government, i m going to not pay our bills unless i get my way? it s a politics of idiocy, of confrontation, of paralysis, close quote. politics of idiocy, his words, not mine. here is one more quote from senator schumer in 2013 during that government shutdown. quote, we believe strongly in immigration reform. we could say we re shutting down the government until you pass immigration reform. it would be governmental chaos, close quote.