US Government Likely Headed for Shutdown, JD Vance Says

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00:00We have disagreements about tax policy, but you don't shut the government down.

00:03We have disagreements about health care policy, but you don't shut the government down.

00:06You don't use your policy disagreements as leverage to not pay our troops,

00:11to not have essential services of government actually function.

00:14You don't say the fact that you disagree about a particular tax provision is an excuse

00:18for shutting down the people's government and all the essential services that come along with it.

00:23So if they want to talk about how to fix American health care policy, let's do it.

00:26The Speaker would love to do it.

00:28The Senate Majority Leader would love to do it.

00:29Let's work on it together, but let's do it in the context of an open government

00:33that's providing essential services to the American people.

00:36That's all that we're proposing to do, and the fact that they refuse to do that

00:40shows how unreasonable their position is.

00:42I think we're headed to a shutdown because the Democrats won't do the right thing.

00:45I hope they change their mind, but we're going to see.

00:47Whatever our disagreements are, let's negotiate with them.

00:50Let's talk about them.

00:51Let's figure out a bipartisan solution, but you don't shut the government down.

00:55In other words, you don't put a gun to the American people's head and say,

00:57unless you do exactly what Senate and House Democrats want you to do,

01:02we're going to shut down your government.

01:03That's exactly what they're proposing out there.