Catherine Cortez Masto

We need to be working like the American public expects us to do in Congress and do our jobs.

I think it starts with the conversations around things that you've just said.

We all obviously need to open up the government.

We have to address and appropriations bills and still pass those.

We're going to need time to get those done.

And we have to fix the Affordable Care Act.

All of those things are on the table.

It's not going to change.

And that's why we have to come together and start talking about those and how we vote on those and what our agreements are around those very areas and how we start moving those forward.

So this, most people don't know the National Nuclear Security Agency has a number of sites across the country.

One of them is the Nevada site, security site, where we actually have federal workers and contract workers overseeing our nuclear stockpile.

and ensuring its national security, testing the stockpile, ensuring its safety, and amongst other things.

Those are essential workers.

They should not be furloughed, they should not be fired, and they should continue to get paid.

It's essential for our national security and for so many other reasons.

And again, what I saw happen just recently with this energy secretary is more of this politics is trying to put pressure and play political games.

And at the end of the day, the only people that are suffering are these federal workers and Americans.

They're constantly pawns.

Federal workers and federal contracts are constantly pawns and at the whims of political politics.

agendas, and it's just outrageous to me.