House Republican Leader (Kevin McCarthy or other GOP leader) - Unknown (identified as 'the leader' speaking for House Republicans)

We just demonstrated that in the one big beautiful bill, the Working Families Tax Cut.

yes and they're eating up the clock in the month of october they shut the government down october 1st we had always been counting on using these four weeks in october to to finish up those discussions the great irony is it is they themselves that are doing it and shannon we cannot lose the the simple fact that their counter proposal to fund the government was 1.5 trillion dollars in new spending as you noted they wanted to give money back for the corporation for public broadcasting and all sorts of things and they wanted to claw back

the elimination of fraud, waste and abuse that we took out of Medicaid to make it work better, and the $50 billion that Republicans put into the law to prop up rural hospitals.

What they're saying today makes no sense.

So much to be said there.

The rural hospitals that are in trouble right now are not because of Republican policies.

This is the legacy of what has happened under Obamacare.

And you just heard the leader of the Democrats in the House acknowledge that Obamacare is unaffordable.

When they passed the new law in 2010, they promised us it was going to make health care more affordable.

They put it in the name of the law.

It did exactly the opposite.

Yeah, I had a thoughtful conversation with my friend Marjorie Taylor Greene on the phone the other night, a couple of nights ago to to inform her that there are many Republicans in Congress that have been working around the clock on this.

They're on the committees of jurisdiction that deal with this.

Marjorie doesn't serve on those committees, so I offered to have her come into the room and be a part of that discussion if indeed she wants to do that.

There has been a lot of work done on this.

We have hundreds of ideas literally on the table to fix healthcare, to make it more affordable for the American people, to make access more available, and to increase the quality of care.

There's a lot that can be done, but you have to build consensus in a large, deliberative public body like this.

And again, what they're saying right now, the reason they're talking about health care is because they're trying to create a distraction.

We have voted eight times to pay the troops, pay TSA agents, Border Patrol agents, everybody serving them.

the federal government and to make sure these services are provided for veterans and the elderly disabled who need them so much.

Eight times now, Democrats in Congress have voted to close the government.

We're on day 10.

It's real pain for real people and they seem not to care.