Congressman Bryan Steil Talks Government Shutdown
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We're lucky to be joined now by one of those members of Congress who is currently out of session but joins us now from Capitol Hill. That's Congressman Brian Stile, Republican representing Wisconsin's 1st District. Congressman, it's good to see you and thanks so much for joining. I loved your opinion on this. The Senate Majority Leader suggesting it's time for the House to come back into session. Do you think that's a good idea?
Well, it's time for the Senate to pass the Clean CR. We're in this situation because the Senate Democratic leadership under Chuck Schumer refuses to vote for a Clean CR. This used to be a non-controversial vote here on Capitol Hill. In fact, Democrats have voted time and again in favor of Clean CRs, most recently in the spring. What changed is the politics for Democrats in the United States Senate. So the House has done our job We're all waiting for the Senate to do their job. Chuck Schumer is beholden to his radical base. A lot of us are frustrated. It's time for us to move on because there's really important negotiations in front of us, including fiscal year 26 appropriations, as well as other policy priorities that you mentioned.
Congressman, it's good to see you. Kevin Hassett had suggested yesterday maybe there's capitulation this week and this whole thing comes to an end. But every time the Senate votes on this, it's the same two Democrats and independents who break ranks here. So, I mean, at some point we could be bumping up against November 21st. What do we do then? Do you wait forever for Senate Democrats? We just stay shut down until Chuck Schumer changes his tune?
What are the implications of a government shutdown?
Well, the consequences of the Schumer shutdown continue to build. President Trump has done a great job taking some extraordinary actions to make sure that the consequences aren't felt by our troops, for example. But many of these are one-time actions. And so the consequences will continue to build. The pressure will build. And I do believe at some point, The Senate will come to the table and recognize that their action to close the federal government and put at risk, for example, payment to our troops, the men and women wearing the United States military uniform, was the wrong bet. The sooner we come out of the shutdown and begin the substantive negotiations on fiscal year 26 approach as well as other policy priorities, the better off we are.
Well, the White House has come to the table on some of these really critical issues like military pay, pay for the Coast Guard, also finding that supplementary funding for that key federal nutrition assistance program that helps women and children. But Congressman, we hear from Democrats that they want President Trump to come to the negotiating table when it comes to the policy stances at stake here, particularly related to health care. We know he had this luncheon today with Senate Republicans. But do you think President Trump should be getting more involved as this shutdown drags on?
Well, I think, again, the challenge here is we put forward a clean CR now, as you noted, weeks ago, passed in the House. We're three weeks into a shutdown. We should be three weeks into the CR, utilizing the time that we're burning right now to negotiate those policy priorities. Many of these have year-end deadlines, appropriate conversations for us to be having, but we should be doing that in the context of an open and operational government. Again, the House did our job. The Senate is running into... filibuster challenges. Senator Fetterman is even calling now and saying maybe we have to overcome that because a minority of United States senators are standing in the way under the leadership of Chuck Schumer from reopening the federal government.
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