Democratic Party tactics have wasted $6.4 billion since the start of the government shutdown, Sen. Joni Ernst told Newsmax on Wednesday.
The Iowa Republican said on Newsmax’s “Wake Up America” that the GOP anticipates Democrats will once again vote against the bill Wednesday to end the shutdown and block the efforts of the Republican Party to open up the government, “so that we can continue working for the American people.”
Placing the blame for the shutdown entirely on Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, Ernst said that since it began, “we have now wasted $6.4 billion paying for nonessential employees that are not showing up to work. We waste $400 million every workday that the government is shut down,” adding that “the taxpayers [are] the ones that foot that bill.”
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