Senator Chuck Schumer

Our budget expires September 30th, okay?

And what has always happened in the past is that the Democrats and Republicans, because you need both in the Senate unless one side has 60 votes, which no side really gets.

A supermajority, yeah.

We sit down and negotiate.

This time they didn't do that.

The Republicans said, take it or leave it.

And we, the Democrats, we felt that what's happening in healthcare, that the healthcare crisis is upon us and Americans are going to, so many, tens of millions of Americans and families are going to feel such pain.

But we said, we want to negotiate to address the healthcare crisis.

So they said no.

What's the consequence?

I'll get into all of the details as to why they said no, and most important, what we're fighting for.

But what it means is that the government doesn't have money to spend.

Essential services continue, and the people work.

They don't get paid, but they get paid.

Everyone who is furloughed, whether you're working or not, gets back pay at the end.

So no one loses any money, but it's hard.

Of course, yeah.

We hate the shutdown.

That's why we want the Republicans to simply sit down and meet with us.

So essential services, the military, law enforcement, air traffic control, they continue to work without pay.