(27 Sep 2023)
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Washington, DC - 27 September 2023
1. Wide of Sen. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer walking to microphone
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Chuck Schumer, Majority Leader:
"Every approach House Republicans are pushing are partisan. Every CR (Continuing Resolution) has been aimed at the extreme, hard right. Every path they have pursued today will inevitably lead to a shutdown. Now, Speaker McCarthy wants to move a partisan CR that has no chance of becoming law. Why? Is he trying to help the country or is he simply trying to appease the 30 most extreme members of his caucus? Because the same MAGA Republicans that the speaker seeks to satisfy, the same members who seem happy to shut down the government, have already rejected his plan to avoid one. This is not an impossible puzzle to solve. The solution remains clear. Speaker McCarthy needs to stop letting the MAGA radicals drive his decisions and do the obvious and sensible thing. Follow the Senate's lead and pass a bipartisan CR to prevent this reckless shutdown."
3. Cutaway of reporters
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Patty Murray, (D) Washington:
"This package addresses major bipartisan priorities so Congress can continue support for disaster relief efforts and for our allies in Ukraine. It will prevent a pay cut for our heroic wildland firefighters. It will avoid chaos and furloughs for air traffic controllers and community health centers and more. This is a meticulously negotiated, bipartisan bill that can be signed into law as soon as it's passed. And if any senator or extremist in the House wants to force a shutdown, make no mistake, working Americans will pay the price."
5. Cutaway of reporters
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Chuck Schumer, Majority Leader:
"If MAGA Republicans get their way. The dangers for this country will be great. Extremism will dominate, the ultra wealthy will be empowered, working families will suffer, and women's health care will be even more curtailed. We in the Senate don't want to go down that troubling road."
7. Wide of Schumer and Murray at microphone

STORYLINE:
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and his Democratic colleagues are urging House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to follow their lead and pass bipartisan legislation to avert a government shutdown.

As the Senate marches ahead with a bipartisan approach to prevent a government shutdown, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is back to square one — asking his hard-right Republicans to do what they have said they would never do: approve their own temporary House measure to keep the government open.

The Republican speaker laid out his strategy Wednesday behind closed doors, urging his unruly Republican majority to work together. He set up a test vote for Friday, one day before Saturday's shutdown deadline, on a far-right bill. It would slash federal spending by 8% from many agencies and toughen border security but has been rejected by President Joe Biden, Democrats and his own right-flank Republicans.

On the other side of the Capitol, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is warning of the right-wing extremes that “seem to exult in shutting down government.”

Schumer told reporters, “Every path they have pursued to date will inevitably lead to a shutdown.”

The Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell was in rare agreement with the Democratic leader, urging his House colleagues to consider the Senate's stopgap approach that keeps funding at current levels, along with bolstered money for Ukraine and U.S. disaster relief, and move off the shutdown strategy.




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