Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

No, you don't, because they're playing golf and they're going to Mar-a-Lago and the House and Republicans in the House have been on vacation for weeks now.

We are here in Washington, D.C.

We are ready to work.

We are ready to strike a deal.

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.

Right now, House Democrats are in Washington, D.C.

Senate Democrats are in Washington, D.C.

Even Senate Republicans, I believe, are still in Washington, D.C.

The only people who are not in Washington, D.C.

are the over 200 elected Republicans in the House of Representatives.

Because Speaker of the House Mike Johnson refuses to call the House in session.

He refuses to also seat Adelita Grijalva because they want to prevent the 218th signature on release of the Epstein files as well.

No, Mike Johnson has sworn in several members, Republican members, in pro forma sessions.

He understands that the importance

of this country, the importance of representation is not about pomp and circumstance.

And in fact, it's not just about Representative Grijalva, it's about the over 700,000 people in the state of Arizona, veterans, seniors, teachers, students,

who do not have anyone to call in an emergency because their elected representative that has been certified at municipal, state, and the federal level with federal acknowledgement, he refuses to seat a duly elected official here in the House of Representatives.

To reopen the government?

Well, you know, here's what we have to say.