(29 Jul 2025)
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Washington, DC – 29 July 2025
1. Senate Majority Leader John Thune and other Republicans at lectern
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. John Thune, Majority Leader
"I think it’s in everybody’s interest to avoid a government shutdown at the end of September, which, as you all know, is when our fiscal year ends. And obviously, in order for that to happen, it’s going to take some cooperation from Democrats. So I think the President is prepared to deal, to negotiate. He’s proven that in the past. And obviously we have bills on the floor right now, or a bill on the floor, which we’re trying to convert into bills, to make it a package of bills, to consider, to keep the appropriations process moving forward. And obviously we are all very concerned on our side of the aisle in finding ways to make our country more fiscally sustainable. To find savings within the appropriations process and the other areas of government funding that fall under the mandatory side of budget. But we very much want to see restraint in spending so that we can start dealing with the debt and the deficits. And I think the best way at least right now to do that is to have a normal appropriations process and a number of my colleagues are on that committee and have been working aggressively to try and get bills ready for consideration on the floor and I just hope now that we can get a path forward to do that."
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3. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. John Thune, Majority Leader
"We have never seen in history anything like what the Democrats are now doing. As of this date, back in 2021, Joe Biden had gotten 46 nominees confirmed either by voice vote or unanimous consent. Donald Trump has zero. Zero, not a single one, confirmed by a voice or unanimous consent. And further, the Democrats are making it hard even on bipartisan nominees that sometimes will get 60 votes plus on the floor, one even up to 83 votes on the floor. So even the bipartisan noms (nominees) are being blocked and delayed, so much so that the Democrats have been forcing me, when I file cloture just to get a nominee considered on the floor, to go in and out of executive and legislative sessions. So these are just dilatory tactics designed to block and obstruct the president and his agenda. And the sad reality is that there are a lot of these people who fill important positions in our government who need to be able to be confirmed to get there so they can do their jobs."
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Chuck Schumer, Minority Leader
"So with costs rising and chaos rising at an all-time hight, what are the White House and Senate Republicans focused on? Unprecedented corruption, aided and abetted by Senate Republicans. Trump accepted a luxury plane from Qatar to use as Air Force One, with potentially hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars to be spent on renovations. He turned the South Lawn of the White House into a Tesla dealership. His family is getting rich off schemes and selling access for profit. Trump’s rampant self-stealing puts corruption front and center. I have never witnessed, and I think in American history, an administration that enriches themselves from their government actions. It’s gross. And of course, that leads us to the Jeffrey Epstein cover-up. Trump promised he’d release the Epstein files while he was on the campaign trail, yet he has yet to do it. Speaker Johnson quite literally preferred to shut down Congress, sending everyone home on an Epstein recess to avoid the topic. Americans are right to be angry over the lack of transparency."
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