Senator Chuck Schumer

Shut down or not, they take agencies,

and they illegally fire them.

In most instances, those who were fired in their groups, unions, or whatever, go to court and win, but they are using the shutdown as a pretext in that regard as well.

Right, so he funded the military,

With $8 billion, he took research dollars out of the Defense Department and put it into pay.

Now, that's probably not legal because Congress allocated the money in one place, and the Constitution says the president can't just unilaterally move it without Congress's okay.

But he's been doing a lot of illegal acts to enforce what he wants.

Everyone wants the military to get paid, of course.

We need them.

They risk their lives for us.

They're just great.

But the way to do that, the real answer, is for the Republicans to end the shutdown by sitting down and talking to us.

This is unprecedented.

So are they not talking to you?

Not at all.

Listen to this.

So when we saw how they decimated health care in June in their so-called Big Beautiful Bill, which we call the Big Ugly Bill.

And by the way, Donald Trump said, we better change the name because it's not very popular.

They thought it would be more popular than it was.

But the way they slashed lots of things, not just health care, but energy costs, your electricity bills are going to go up dramatically because of what they did, because they eliminated some of the best forms of producing energy, clean energy, wind, solar.