US Govt Shutdown Continues as Democrats Vow to Stand Firm After 4th Vote Fails in Senate

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Democrats are holding their ground as the U.S. Senate fails for the fourth time to pass a bill to end the ongoing government shutdown. With federal agencies partially closed and pressure mounting, both parties continue to trade blame over spending priorities and border security demands. Watch.&nbsp;

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00:00We've asked Republican leaders for months to sit down and talk to us, talk with us.

00:05They've refused and barreled us into a shutdown.

00:08They thought they could bludgeon us and threaten us and scare us.

00:13It ain't working.

00:14My caucus and Democrats are adamant that we must protect the health care of the American people.

00:22Republicans have instead, they've wasted a week, refused to talk, and exacerbated pain for America.

00:28As people get their new health care bills and they see how much it is, it's shocking how much it is.

00:37We Democrats are going to be there day in and day out and say, the president and the Republicans did it.

00:43We've asked Republican leaders for months to sit down and talk to us, talk with us.

00:49They've refused and barreled us into a shutdown.

00:51They thought they could bludgeon us and threaten us and scare us.

00:56It ain't working.

00:58Because my caucus and Democrats are adamant that we must protect the health care of the American people.

01:06And so now, rather than working with us to end the pain Americans are feeling because of a shutdown,

01:15Republicans have instead, they've wasted a week, refused to talk, and exacerbated pain for America.

01:22Instead of trying to come to the table and negotiate with Democrats and reopen the government,

01:26The White House and fellow Republicans have vowed to make this a maximum pain shutdown, they call it.

01:33Unfortunately, the maximum pain falls on the American people, and the American people know it.

01:39They know it's not Democrats doing this maximum pain.

01:43It's vote and Trump and the Republicans.

01:45Just again, completely, he thinks this is funny.

01:50He thinks that people are going to joke about this.

01:52I promise you, they're not.

01:54They are seeing their premiums double right now.

01:58So why is this something we're standing up for now?

02:01Because it's happening now.

02:02Ask anyone you know.

02:04It is not a December thing.

02:06It is not a January thing.

02:07It is a now thing.

02:09And we are asking them to meet with us to do something to help fix this health care crisis.

02:17And it's something they can do.

02:18It's something I am sure many of you have heard them behind closed doors say they actually want to do

02:24because they've realized so many of their rural constituents,

02:28and when you look at the number, you realize so many Republican constituents

02:32know that this is a plan that are relied on by small businesses, by individual farmers,

02:39by people that don't work at big corporations so they can't afford their own health care.

02:44That's what happens.

02:46And I just cannot believe that they've decided instead to repost offensive deepfake videos

02:54than actually get to work, open the government, and do something about health care.

02:58As both Amy and Brian mentioned, as people get their new health care bills

03:05and they see how much it is, it's shocking how much it is,

03:10and they go and say who did it, and we Democrats are going to be there day in and day out

03:13and say the president and the Republicans did it,

03:17and that's why we feel we're, you know, that's why we feel we're in a strong position.

03:21We'll see you next time.

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