Tim Burchett: 'If We Do Have A Shutdown, It's All On The Democrats'

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On "Forbes Newsroom," Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) spoke about the likelihood of a government shutdown.

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00:00And you felt good enough to support it. So that went through. The House avoided the shutdown.

00:03Now the ball is in the Senate's court. And I've had these conversations time and time again in

00:08the past couple of years. There's a looming government shutdown before it was with a

00:12Democrat president. Now it's with a Republican president. The ball's in the Senate's court.

00:17Republicans need some Democrats to come on board with them to get over that filibuster.

00:22Senator John Fetterman, he's a Democrat. He said he's going to support it. A Republican,

00:26Senator Rand Paul said he will not support it. Based on what you're seeing, based on your

00:30conversations you're having with lawmakers, what does it look like? Do you think that the

00:35government's going to shut down in just a few days? Well, if we do have a shutdown, it's all

00:40on the Democrats. It's not on the Republicans, because the reality is this is very similar to

00:45the budget that Pelosi and Schumer passed before. And people are angry that we're not putting the

00:50doge cuts in there. Well, legally, you can't. This is not the mechanism to do that. That has

00:55to come later. And that was another agreement I got with President Trump, that we were going to

01:02start doing that. Because currently, we really don't have a mechanism. Nobody's actively,

01:08unless just individually, you want to put a bill in that does what doge did. So

01:14I would hope the Democrats would have some sense. It's kind of funny. In the past,

01:21when we didn't join with them, on some of these crazy spending sprees, they go on, they accuse us

01:28of trying to shut the government down. And now, in effect, they're doing the exact same thing,

01:32when it's very obvious that their goal is to shut the government down and to blame it on Donald Trump

01:38because of their hatred of him. And it's just, it's ridiculous. And I don't need to tell you,

01:43I don't need to tell our viewers what a government shutdown would do to millions of federal workers

01:48and people like veterans and things like that. But you haven't supported continuing resolutions

01:55in the past. You're supporting this now. Isn't a continuing resolution kicking the can down

02:00the road? Can we ever see or will we see a more permanent solution? Yeah, I believe it will. And

02:06I believe this is the opportunity we have. I think that what's happened is that our former leadership

02:13did kick that can down the road. And this was their, they weren't minding the store,

02:18so to speak. And I think you've got a speaker in Mike Johnson and a president in Donald Trump that

02:23understands that and understands to get this economy going, we have to have the full faith of

02:29the public in it, consumer confidence. And I believe you'll see that because we are working

02:34towards passing a budget. And that is something that is openly talked about in committee. It's

02:38not something they allow the budget chairman to get up and talk about for one minute in conference.

02:45We have almost the whole conference meeting is debating on how to go about passing a budget,

02:50something that has not been done in 30 years. So yeah, I think we're moving in the right direction.

Tim Burchett: 'If We Do Have A Shutdown, It's All On The Democrats'

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