Sen. John Thune digs in on GOP funding bill, accusing Democrats of holding government 'hostage'

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Source: NBC News

WASHINGTON — A defiant Senate Majority Leader John Thune vowed that Republicans will hold firm on their seven-week funding bill, insisting that the only way to prevent a government shutdown this week is for Democrats to support it.

In an interview that aired Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Thune said it’s “totally up to the Democrats” whether a shutdown will be avoided. He vowed that there won’t be any negotiations on a stopgap bill, likening Democrats to hostage-takers who are “hijacking” the process to pursue ideological demands.

“We need eight Democrats to pass it through the Senate,” Thune told "Meet the Press" moderator Kristen Welker, adding: “What the Democrats have done here is take the federal government as a hostage — and for that matter, by extension, the American people — to try and get a whole laundry list of things that they want that special interest groups on the far left are pushing them to accomplish.”

He said Republicans won’t compromise on the short-term bill, calling it a mechanism to keep pursuing a long-term deal.

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/sen-john-thune-digs-gop-130646751.html

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You need to restore the money you took from people's healthcare.

[Chasstev365]

1. And how is this BS being countered?

We need a simple, strong message to push back or Democrats will be blamed!

[willbrad9080]

2. You don't get to cry 'hostage' after robbing the clinic.

Thune talking about "hostages" is rich coming from a party that systematically gutted healthcare, blocked Medicaid expansion, and fought to strip protections for preexisting conditions — all while handing billionaires massive tax cuts.
If anyone’s holding the American people hostage, it’s the folks who decided corporate profits matter more than insulin prices.
Restore the healthcare funding you gutted, then maybe we’ll talk about "compromise."

[wolfie001]

3. This should only resonate with the stupid, racist MAGA crowd

[karynnj]

4. We need EIGHT Democrats, means they don't have all the Republicans

They have 53 Republicans, so should need only 7.

Also, there is no compromise on issues we care about and this follows Trump taking back money actually approved

[bucolic_frolic]

5. Thune's "far left" means Thune and his GOP don't have the votes.

So they try to reframe to blame Democrats. Thune's a creep. You gonna get you gotta give. Compromise. Reaching across the aisle. Bipartisanship.

Fear mongering Democrats doesn't cut it.

This is Trump's GOP Congress that can't pass their own bill!

[mountain grammy]

6. Hey, ya got Fetterman

That’s as bipartisan as it gets pal.

[CousinIT]

7. Americans who need and deserve healthcare are "special interest groups" now? n/t

[BWdem4life]

8. Always.

That's the way they frame anything that helps ordinary people.

[mdbl]

9. What is left to fund?

They have allowed the Dump administration to dump half the government already. Give him another month to finish the other half.

[pat_k]

10. Republicans want to cut your healthcare so badly, they'll shut down the government to do it.

It's about refusing to be accomplices in the biggest cuts to Medicaid in U.S. history.

It's about refusing to be accomplices to increasing healthcare premiums for 75 million Americans by an average of 75%.

It's about refusing to be accomplices to the Republican Congress's cowardly refusal to DO THEIR DUTY and demand that Trump stop breaking his oath of office and carry out the laws passed by Congress.

More talking points:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220675016

[Gimpyknee]

11. Democrats are holding the government hostage?

Dude, you control the WH and both sides of Congress. This is all on you.