It's the Late Show Pots show with Steven Colbert.

Welcome back everybody.

Ladies and gentlemen, my next guest tonight is the junior senator from Arizona.

Please welcome to the Late Show. Senator Ruben Gallego.

Senator, thanks Gallego.

Senator, thanks for coming on.

I got to say this is pretty cool, actually.

It's pretty nice. It's a nice place, isn't it?

Let's get right to it here.

The federal government is shut down.

The president is out of the country.

Who is minding the store? Like, do dollars still work?

Or do we have to go to a barter system until this thing's over?

I think we're all supposed to go to Trump coins at this point.

Look, uh...

God, calm down, geez.

Look, I mean, there was no one really minding the store before. He was just robbing the

store the whole time. And so... Kind of outrageous how baldly that's happening. And now, you know,

he's overseas, you know, he cares more about, you know, Argentine beef. He cares about feeding

the rich people in his ballroom instead of, you know, caring about feeding the people of this country. And meanwhile, we're all waiting and trying to decide, like, how we're going to get out of this. But the person needs to be part of that negotiation just is not here. He's mentally not here. Even when he is here, he's not here. But he is physically not here. That makes it very, very difficult to do anything. Well, this shutdown has gone on for 29 days.

If I can characterize the physically not here. That makes it very, very difficult to do anything. Well, this shutdown has gone on for 29 days.

If I can characterize the position, the Democrats want the Republicans to address the lapsing of the tax credits in the ACA, the Obamacare.

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