Bryan Steil

Well, it's time for the Senate to pass the Clean CR.

We're in this situation because the Senate Democratic leadership under Chuck Schumer refuses to vote for a Clean CR.

This used to be a non-controversial vote here on Capitol Hill.

In fact, Democrats have voted time and again in favor of Clean CRs, most recently in the spring.

What changed is the politics for Democrats in the United States Senate.

So the House has done our job

We're all waiting for the Senate to do their job.

Chuck Schumer is beholden to his radical base.

A lot of us are frustrated.

It's time for us to move on because there's really important negotiations in front of us, including fiscal year 26 appropriations, as well as other policy priorities that you mentioned.

Well, the consequences of the Schumer shutdown continue to build.

President Trump has done a great job taking some extraordinary actions to make sure that the consequences aren't felt by our troops, for example.

But many of these are one-time actions.

And so the consequences will continue to build.

The pressure will build.

And I do believe at some point,

The Senate will come to the table and recognize that their action to close the federal government and put at risk, for example, payment to our troops, the men and women wearing the United States military uniform, was the wrong bet.

The sooner we come out of the shutdown and begin the substantive negotiations on fiscal year 26 approach as well as other policy priorities, the better off we are.

Well, I think, again, the challenge here is we put forward a clean CR now, as you noted, weeks ago, passed in the House.

We're three weeks into a shutdown.