This morning, U.S. Senator Markwayne Mullin (R-OK), joined Fox News’ “America’s Newsroom” with Bill Hemmer and Dana Perino. The Senator discussed how Chuck Schumer and the Democrats continue to hold the American people hostage over ridiculous demands for illegal aliens.
Throughout the week, Senator Mullin has also shared multiple social media videos explaining the Schumer Shutdown directly to the American people:
· Video – Democrats want to give free health care to illegals
· Video – Sen. Mullin provides the receipts, exposes the Democrats
On the Democrats continued charades:
“Bill, sometimes you just can’t make sense out of crazy. I mean, how many times have they pulled that fire alarm? Remember, OBBB was going to kill thousands and thousands were going to lose their health care, and hundreds of rural hospitals were going to go out. I mean, they cry this ridiculous war cry, rally cry, that does nothing.”
On the Democrats lying to the American people:
“They continue to lie to the American people because they can’t actually fight on substance. They can’t fight on facts. What they know for a fact is, they have voted for this CR 13 times… They voted for this exact clean CR, this exact language, exact numbers– a year ago, they voted on it in December, they voted on it in January, and they voted on it in March, and now they’re saying that they’re going to hold the American people hostage unless they get $1.5 trillion to defund basically everything that the one big, beautiful bill pulled out of the fraud, waste and abuse. And they’re saying now they want to put it back in, it’s a really hard argument to make.
On the Democrats ignoring the facts:
“And by the way, what they’re wanting $1.5 trillion for, which is $600 billion above the defense budget, is only to open the government up for four weeks. It’s very hard for them to explain. So instead of actually arguing about facts, Dana, what they do is they go out there and they make ridiculous claims like this. And at some point you have to ignore them because Elizabeth Warren, Chuck Schumer, they lost their ever loving mind, and they’re saying the most ridiculous things possible because they’re pandering to this extreme left.”
On opening the government immediately:
“This has all happened, Schumer shutdown, because he’s fearful of AOC running against him in 2028. If the Democrats are really concerned, they could open the government up in five minutes. Literally five minutes. We already have a bipartisan bill that three Democrats have voted for. We just need five more of them to join with us, and we can open the government up, literally, we can open it up immediately.”
On the ongoing negotiations with Democrats:
“We have had a group working for about three days, meaning yesterday we met at six o’clock in the morning, the day before that, we met at six o’clock in the morning, we met at eight o’clock at night… You know, we’re not negotiating on trying to reopen the government. We’ve already said this is a clean CR you can vote to open it right now, and we’ll negotiate on what the long-term funding bill is, and we’ll talk to you about it, but we’re not going to allow you to hold the American people hostage because of your political fears.”
On the Democrats risking the paychecks of hard-working Americans:
“What we have to do is make sure that we continue to move forward… What Russ Vought did yesterday is he went ahead and paid the military in full. Today, he went ahead and paid all federal employees in full. Now mind you, he didn’t have to do that. The White House didn’t have to do that because effectively, we went to a shutdown on 12:01 yesterday morning, but he went ahead and chose to do that. Now he runs out of money, and he can’t do that on the 15th and on the 16th. So, on the 15th and 16th, the Democrats are going to have to choose. Are they going to continue this political fight for Chuck Schumer because of his fear of AOC, or are they going to decide to go ahead and pay the military and pay the federal employees? I think their spirits will break at that point and say Chuck Schumer is not leading for the American people, but leading for his political agenda.”
On the future of health care in the United States:
“Well, we know Obamacare, ‘affordable health care’, didn’t work because it made the health care prices go through the roof. If we want to solve this issue, how about we use the president that’s in office right now, because he’s the art of the deal. He knows business, he knows how to negotiate, and he knows what free market can do. If they want to solve the health care crisis and actually take care of the American people, then use the business guy that’s in office right now, set away your hatred and your bias towards him and realize he’s the business guy that may be able to help the American people solve this health care crisis and bring the free market back into working for the health care of the American people.”
This morning’s full interview can be found here.
