Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

We're not here to just be my way in the highway about everything.

But what we're also not going to accept is the complete collapse of the American health care system so that just because the Republican Party has decided to take a million federal workers hostage.

Shout out to the Midas Mighty.

They need to pick up a phone.

They're saying that they're doing all this work.

They are twiddling their thumbs and talking to each other.

It is actually an unconscionable abdication and refusal to work.

They refuse.

I've never seen people who hate working so much in my life.

I mean, genuinely, they won't even pick up the phone.

They won't.

If I were Mike Johnson, you should be in that office negotiating with Hakeem Jeffries every damn day until we reopen this government.

And any day that you don't do that is a failure.

It is a failure.

And until there is accountability for people who refuse to work,

to work, then we're going to continue to be in this cycle.

So, you know, in the Senate, the Senate majority leader is John Thune.

He should be negotiating with Chuck Schumer.

President Trump should be having congressional leaders in the White House.

Do you see that every day?