Thanks to you for joining me at home at this hour. Unless republicans in congress do something about it, this Saturday Night, at one minute past midnight, the federal government will shut down. And while the House Freedom caucus making radical demands and treating this like a political stunt, that Saturday Night deadline very real in terms of the harm it can cause for Hundreds Of Thousands of americans. I am old enough to remember the last time that the Government Shutdown because republicans wanted something ridiculous. Its right around christmas of 2018. The federal government shut down because President Trump demanded funding for a border wall that he never ended up finishing. And on capitol hill, it was a but for 100,000 Government Workers, these antics and 35 days without a paycheck. That new life for ships enter in Capitol Heights its opening its doors to furloughed workers, providing donating food from Grocery Stores and church members. Im with the Department Of Commerce in four
While the House Freedom caucus is making radical demands and treating this like a political stunt, that saturday night deadline very real in terms of the harm it can cause for Hundreds Of Thousands of americans. I am old enough to remember the last time that the Government Shutdown because republicans wanted something ridiculous. It was right around christmas of 2018. The federal government shut down because President Trump demanded funding for a border wall that he never ended up finishing. And on capitol hill, it was a spectacle. But for 80,000 Government Workers, these antics and 35 days without a paycheck. That new life for ships enter in Capitol Heights its opening its doors to furloughed workers, providing donating food from Grocery Stores and church members. Im with the Department Of Commerce and yeah, four weeks, no check. Many of the folks in this line have worked for the federal government for decades. 30 something years. And dont know what it is like to go without a check. T
secret service, but are we honestly going to have a state of the union address during a shutdown? i want to get the street the state of the union is that we are not open for business. okay? let s open this government back up. then i am more than happy to attend my first date of the union address. i would be incredibly excited to do so. this is absurd, though. if not open this government backup. you might have wanted to tell your house speaker that, which brings me to the point of exactly where congress men went strep was prayed he was talking with the other side of the political aisle, but where is everybody on the house side right now in terms of democrats working with republicans? he said it was hard to take a bead on that. where d you put put it? sure. this spring see it the house is unified, at least on the democratic side, but this is also an issue that was bipartisan in nature. there is bipartisan support right now for opening this government back up as quickly as possibl
they will get paid. does it affect military pension. it does not. does it affect folks applying for va disability, it may affect their application process. but it is far past that too. your federal first responders out there. they have to figure out who is essential on monday. it also affects folks that support military. contractors, they won t get paid for sure. monday, that doesn t start in that pay period. they may not get paid at all and they support the military. this is one scene, one fight. takes a lot of effort both civilian and active-duty to guard this nation. there are a lot of folks anxious and it s important that we come together and stop petty politics and be as courageous as they are to open his government backup. arthel: i want to play sound from secretary mattis on friday. explaining what would happen when this - - what happens during the shutdown. i would tell you we do a lot