Senator Marshall: The Democrats Want to Shut Down the Government
Senator Marshall Joins Fox News To Discuss The Schumer Shutdown
Washington – On Saturday, U.S. Senator Roger Marshall, M.D. (R-Kansas), joined Fox News to discuss how Republicans are working to prevent the Schumer Shutdown, and why the Democrats are taking hostages with the budget when it comes to healthcare funding.
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On what Republicans want from budget negotiations:
“Well, listen, the Republicans want a balanced budget. We want to keep the government open as well. But the Republicans have been negotiating since January. Susan Collins, the chairperson of the Appropriations Committee, has negotiated 90% of the Federal Budget that were responsible for. Through her committee, it’s passed out of committee, oftentimes, 23 to 2, 24, to 1. So Chuck Schumer is the one that’s sitting on those and won’t let those go across the finish line.
“And really, what he’s done, he’s taken a hostage here. His hostage is he wants $40 billion a year of extra subsidies for Obamacare. And those were set up during the Joe Biden Covid era, and we’ve said enough. COVID is over with, we want to move on, and by the way, 70% of those extra dollars are actually for people making over four times the poverty level. That’s not right.”
On the Democrats pushing for more healthcare funding for illegal immigrants:
“Look, I think we need to be compassionate. I want to make sure everybody gets adequate health care, but who’s paying for it? Again, this is one more consequence of this by Joe Biden. I want to emphasize here, what we’re asking for is a stopgap measure on funding that Democrats agreed to just last December. Every Senate Democrat voted for this budget. This is their budget, what they requested, and they want another $1.5 trillion on top of that. They’re not being reasonable. The ball is in Chuck Schumer’s court. I think he’s been given a very reasonable alternative at this point in time as well. And again, this is all about these $40 billion of subsidies on the ACA as well as the Medicaid expansion, those types of things from the Obamacare era.”
On the importance of keeping the government open:
“Yeah, so we would like to keep the government open, but we want a reasonable amount of spending. At the end of the day, this is about that $40 billion of subsidies that Chuck Schumer is asking for. Of those subsidies, 60-70% of it is going to people making four times the poverty level. A reasonable request from Schumer would be to say, okay, let’s continue that subsidy for the people who are at the poverty level, two or three times the poverty level, that would be the reasonable request, but not the $1.5 trillion that he’s asked for. That’s not reasonable. I assume that’s why the President did not take the meeting in the White House.”
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