Senate Democrats are prolonging the government shutdown for political reasons and “holding the American people hostage” to push back against President Donald Trump, Rep. Michelle Fischbach said on Newsmax, Friday.
“We can have the government open,” the Minnesota Republican told Newsmax’s “Newsline.” “We can continue that appropriations process. This is simply them holding the American people hostage for their radical agenda, because they don’t like what President Trump is doing.”
Fischbach accused Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries of catering to their party’s “radical base” rather than working to reopen the government.
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