Republicans Are United, And It’s Time To Finish The Shutdown

[ad_1] WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans emerged from their Tuesday lunch on the White Home with a message for his or her Democrat colleagues: they're unified, and they're on Donald Trump’s crew.

“That is the fourth week of the Democrats’ shutdown, however we're all right here right now as a result of your Republican crew within the Senate is unified,” Senate Majority Chief John Thune (R-SD) informed President Trump as he took the rostrum following the president’s remarks.

“Senate Republicans, Home Republicans, and the President of the US are all in favor of opening the federal authorities,” the Senate Majority Chief added as he gaggled with reporters exterior the White Home following the lunch. “You could have a bunch of the individuals right here, a united crew, that believes profoundly that we have to get our authorities open and if Democrats need to speak about topics, issues unrelated to getting the federal government, we’re comfortable to have these conversations.”

The Rose Backyard luncheon introduced collectively the nation’s prime Republicans, together with the president, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Chief of Workers Susie Wiles, White Home Deputy Chief of Workers Stephen Miller, Senators Chuck Grassley, Mike Lee, Ted Cruz, Jim Banks, Tim Scott, Mitch McConnell, Ashley Moody, and lots of others.

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Trump, who may be very pleased with his Rose Backyard renovations, in addition to his upcoming ballroom addition to the White Home, acted as host for the occasion, touting the great thing about the outside house to his Republican pals, lots of whom he is aware of very properly. He additionally tore into Senate Minority Chief Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and the Democrats within the Senate, calling for them to instantly finish their resistance to the “clear, bipartisan CR and reopen our authorities.”

Earlier on Tuesday, Schumer had slammed the Rose Backyard lunch as a “pep rally,” posting on X of his Republican colleagues: “No time to repair the healthcare disaster they created, however loads of time for a mini pep rally with Donald Trump!”

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“From the start, our message has been quite simple,” President Donald Trump informed the gathered Republicans. “We won't be extorted on this loopy plot of theirs. … Chuck Schumer and the Senate Democrats have to vote for the clear, bipartisan CR, and reopen our authorities … proper now.”

“We aren't doing that,” added the president, talking of the Democrats holding up the federal government from opening. “They're the obstructionists. And the explanation they're doing it's as a result of we're doing so properly. We’re doing so properly everywhere in the world.”

Notably absent from right now’s lunch was Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, whom Trump singled out.

“All people confirmed up,” he stated. “We’re simply lacking one individual.”

Paul responded to the president’s remarks on social media, saying in an X submit: “I really wasn’t invited to the White Home lunch right now, however that’s okay. I had a beforehand scheduled Liberty Caucus Lunch with [Thomas Massie].”

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