Montana Congressman: Dems Are Ready to Shut Down Government

Montana Congressman Troy Downing (R-MT02) says Democrats are poised to shut down the federal government.

If the Republicans were poised to shut down the federal government, you'd see the fear porn scattered across the Montana media. But now that Democrats are poised to shut down the government- where's the coverage?

Rep. Downing had just left a House GOP Conference meeting featuring Vice President JD Vance when I caught up with him earlier this week.

Rep. Downing: "It's really, really important to the President that we get this CR (continuing resolution) passed, and so that's why he sent the vice president down here to talk about it. And you know, I hate CR's, just like most of your listeners hate CR's, but, you know, we inherited this from the Biden administration, from the previous administration, and this is our only chance. And this actually, it's flat funding. We actually are saving money from the 2024 spending. Aand it just gives that flat funding so we have some runway so that we can actually start putting together a reconciliation bill and start delivering what everybody put us in here in office to do- everything on the Trump agenda, everything that I ran on, everything that we ran on."

Downing said that all the great work being done by DOGE to trim back the government spending grinds to a halt if we have a government shutdown.

Rep. Downing: "It's not a perfect situation, but this is what we inherited, and this is how we actually start delivering. And we're not slowing anything down by a government shutdown. So it's not going to be the Republicans that shut down the government. It's going to be the Democrats- if they do that- and it's going to put everything at a halt and we're going to hang that around Chuck Schumer's neck."

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