Senator Ron Johnson

By the way, they're going to get paid anyway.

We have a law that's going to provide back pay, so pay them anyway.

you know, in time so they don't have to go to food banks, they don't have to drive DoorDash to pay for their daughter's tuition.

We're hearing stories that that's what federal employees are being forced to do.

That's unconscionable.

I don't remember mentioning Argentina.

Maybe I wasn't articulating something.

Listen, we've got a problem right now from the standpoint that government is shut down.

Things aren't moving forward.

There's a common-sense solution here, either just pass the continuing appropriation or the Eliminate Shutdown Act.

Simple solutions, common sense.

I think the vast majority of Americans would agree with that.

Right now we're being held hostage by, quite honestly, the uniparty appropriators.

This seems dysfunctional.

It is dysfunctional.

This is a very well-honed process.

I've seen it time and time again.

I've been here 15 years.

You use these shutdowns to back us up against a deadline like Thanksgiving or Christmas, drop a multi-thousand-page appropriation bill on our desk, say, take it or leave it, or you're not going to see Christmas.

That has to end.