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Mr. BARRASSO. Mr. President, I just heard Senator Schumer, the minority leader, say that Democrats don't want a government shutdown. Well, I would recommend that the minority leader actually read the newspaper. He is going to see that Democrats are threatening and actually calling for a shutdown of the U.S. Government.

So here is USA Today, today, with a picture of Senator Schumer right there--a big picture in color, with his fist in the air--``Democrats open to shutting down the government.'' So the Senator who just was on the floor, saying, oh, no; they don't want it, is calling for it across the country in USA Today this morning.

That is what we are seeing across this country: Democrats are so much in disarray after the fact that they lost the House, lost the Senate, lost the White House, that the Democrats now want to shut down the government.

Here was the headline in The New York Times on Sunday: ``Democrats Hint at Government Shutdown to Stop Trump's Axing at Federal Agencies.''

President Trump is doing what people elected him to do--to get the wasteful Washington spending to end. So that was in USA Today and The New York Times.

What about The Washington Post?

The Democrats say:

They will not help avert a shutdown.

The Democrats are calling for a shutdown--in USA Today, The New York Times, The Washington Post. The list goes on.

What are Democrats saying on television?

Well, on ``Meet the Press'' this Sunday, Senator Andy Kim of New Jersey, said that Democrats in Congress would shut down the government, he says, ``if we have to'' in order to obstruct President Trump--not to help the country, not to provide services for the men and women in uniform, not to provide needs around the country. No--because they want to obstruct President Trump. That is why Chuck Schumer and the Democrats are calling for a government shutdown.

It didn't end there.

Cory Booker of New Jersey--a member of the leadership of the Democratic Party--was on CNN this weekend. What did he say? ``Democrats will use every tool possible'' to stop President Trump.

The Democrats want to stop the President, who was elected with 312 electoral votes and won every one of the battleground States. The Democrats just want to stop him, and the American people want the kind of action and the urgency that we are seeing right now out of President Trump.

Jeff Merkley, a Senator from Oregon, is open to shutting down the government. He said: ``There's no [more] business as usual.'' Shut it down.

President Trump is doing exactly what America voted for, but here are the headlines, and there are the pictures, and those are the Democrats in the U.S. Senate, saying: We don't care what the American people say. We are going to shut down the government.

President Trump is shrinking the size of government. We know the government is too big. We know it spends too much. President Trump is accounting for every single penny, and we are not going to make pennies anymore as a result of the fact that it costs 3 cents to make a penny. That is why Democrats want to shut down the government. They don't like the success that America is having today. They don't like the optimism that is pervasive throughout our country.

So, once again, if there is going to be a shutdown, we are talking about a ``Schumer shutdown'' of our country because they lost the election.

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