SUNDAY SHOWS: RSC Members Hammer the Democrats Over Reckless Government Shutdown

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Republican Study Committee (RSC) members dominated Sunday shows this weekend with a clear message: Democrats own this shutdown, and their reckless political games are devastating American taxpayers, federal workers, military families, low-income mothers and children, and millions more.

Here's what you missed:

RSC Chairman August Pfluger on Fox News:
“The shutdown that Chuck Schumer has orchestrated is devastating to our military's readiness. It does not allow service members to go train and do the things they need at a high-level. Our service members have to get back to work. This is a distraction.”

Speaker Mike Johnson on CBS:
“They absolutely are, and you don’t have to take our word for it. You can look at what they filed in the record, so we passed a clean, non-partisan, Continuing Resolution, a simple stop-gap funding measure to keep the government open, no partisan pills or priorities, and that was just a simple non-partisan matter that Chuck Schumer already voted for in March. We put it on the floor again and we passed through the House. We sent it to the Senate now, instead of just doing the reasonable thing to keep the government open for the people.” 

Appropriations Chairman Tom Cole on Fox News:
“First of all, the irresponsibility here of shutting down the government and, unfortunately, Leader Jeffries has been the leader in doing that. Now, at this point in the discussion, he’s really sort of irrelevant. The reality is the House has already passed the bill, so there’s no need to be talking to Democratic congressmen about reopening the government. I don’t think anybody’s happy about this, but again, right now the action is in the Senate. As soon as they reopen the government, we can move on to some of the other fare.  Plus, much more importantly in my view, is to have a normal appropriations bill.”

Financial Services Chairman French Hill on CNN:
“No one wins in a government shutdown. Obviously, the federal workers are hurt. Our citizens are hurt by discontinuation of policies. It gets worse, worse each day as it goes along, which is why Republicans took the simple, straightforward approach in the House, passing a clean CR through November 21st so that we could continue these normal appropriations discussions. I think Mr. Schumer made a mistake. I think he marched his troops up into a boxed canyon on this topic, and I‘ve never seen in my short time in Congress anyone who wins that takes this approach. It‘s better to keep the normal appropriations negotiations going.”

House Oversight Chairman James Comer on Fox News:
“This is the one thing I hear in Kentucky this week when I am listening to people talk about the government shutdown, is they cannot believe the Democrats have gone so far left they are willing to jeopardize our military pay, TSA agents, the federal parks, everything within the federal government to try to keep giving free healthcare to illegal aliens.”

Rep. Darrell Issa on Newsmax:
“When you focus on the Democratic leadership of Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer, I think they're clearly pandering to the left. But you have to ask when virtually every House member and virtually every Senator that are Democrats voted with. That means that they're following the same extreme agenda, so they see and show captured Chuck Schumer and King Jeffries choose effectively and her cohorts have captured the entire Democratic House and Senate. That’s scary, who affected more of them? Don’t do the right thing, vote for the population that they’ve already voted for repeatedly, vote for continuation because they will want to fund benefits for that same group of people that they keep saying are hard-working taxpayers.”

Rep. Mike Flood on CNN:
“The House of Representatives did our job. We simply extended the Biden-Schumer budget that everybody voted for a year ago. And then did it again in March. We did it a third time to get to November 21st. And because Chuck Schumer now has the far left base that he‘s trying to please and water their grass, he has to do this show where he shuts the government down to show that he's fighting his nemesis, Donald Trump. And sadly, it‘s putting federal workers, making them pawns in a chess game just to protect his credibility with the far left.”

Rep. Pat Harrigan on NewsNation:
“I think we’re just continuing to be very clear. House Republicans have already done their job. We passed a clean Continuing Resolution two weeks ago and we expect the Senate to do the exact same thing. Now, you’ve got three Senate Democrats voting with Republicans. We need to get this thing across the finish line and I think we’re going to step back and say look this is truly a Schumer Shutdown. This is a Democrat shutdown.”

Rep. Mike Haridoplos on Fox News:
“I don’t take Adam Schiff too seriously. I take people like John Thune very seriously. He believes we can come together and work out agreements in the long-term. But in the short-term, let’s be smart. Keep the government open. Republicans have voted to do so. The only people holding that back are Senate Democrats.”

Rep. Buddy Carter on CNN:
“There‘s no question about it, this is the Schumer shutdown. This shutdown was initiated by Chuck Schumer, Jon Ossoff, and the Democrats in the Senate. And it has been at the expense of our troops who are not getting paid. And in the name of them trying to make sure that illegals get health care here in America, which is something Americans don‘t want and which is something that the Democrats are going to lose on.”

Rep. Mike Turner on NewsNation:
“The fact that they have shut the government down, unfortunately, shows that they don’t have a plan. They have caused this to occur, and I’m not really certain exactly what they’re going to do next.”