Senate Democrats could stop the ongoing government shutdown “in minutes” by voting for the House-passed continuing resolution but are refusing to do so while demanding trillions more in new spending, Sen. Ron Johnson told Newsmax on Wednesday.
“It’s well past time, and the easy way of doing it is just have the Senate Democrats vote for the House-passed CR,” the Wisconsin Republican, who sits on the Senate Finance and Homeland Security committees, said on Newsmax’s “Newsline.”
He added that the Democrats “voted for continuing resolutions time and time and time again when they were in the same situation,” but “now, all of a sudden, they don’t want to do it.”
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