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Situation Report. This is Sit Rep. 25. Wow. Thanks for joining us as we cover the most interesting news from last

week and Army with the facts. So as you hopefully know by now, the government's back open.

Congress is back in session and we're back to work after Thanksgiving.

We've got our work cut out for us, though, because after 43 days of a Schumer-led government shutdown, you know, that's the longest the country's ever seen.

Well, it's worth clearing up what actually happened. First of all, we have a lot of work

to get to because of that 43 days we lost. So I just want to recap, Democrats flat out lied to the

American people about how the shutdown started, who prolonged it, and why it dragged on for more

than 40 days. So back in September,

House Republicans without any Democrat votes, we passed a clean continuing resolution. That's a

clean budget. That's it. That's just saying, look, we're going to continue the budget from

last year. No changes to it. Okay?

That keeps the government open while full-year funding negotiations would continue.

That's the idea.

And we meant for negotiations to happen because it was only a seven-week extension.

The Democrats could argue that we had no intention of negotiating if we had, you know, for instance, done like a year-long extension. That's an indication you don't really care about negotiation. But seven weeks, that's an indication you want to negotiate during that seven weeks. So Senate Democrats rejected that clean bill and came back with a counterproposal that would have spent $1.5 trillion over just five weeks.

A pretty different approach. And when no agreement was reached, the government shut down.

And for 40 plus days, the Senate held more than a dozen votes to reopen the government all along

party lines. Each time, Senate Democrats voted against reopening or government.

You know, the part that gets spun falsely most of all, you know, it takes 60 votes to pass anything in the Senate.

There's only 53 Republicans. That means Democrats had the deciding votes and therefore full control

because we all knew which way the Republican senators would vote.

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