video: Congressman McGovern Slams Republican Party Over Latest Shutdown Threat

Friday, April 28, 2017

GoLocalWorcester Political Team

Congressman Jim McGovern slams GOP over Government shutdown

Congressman Jim McGovern slammed the Republican party for their government shutdown threat in order to push their healthcare bill through.

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“This latest scramble by Republicans to pass their healthcare bill is just “an attempt to deliver a ‘political win’ to Donald Trump so he can celebrate his 100th day in office. Doesn’t matter what the details are, he just wants to tout a victory of some sort. Well, this is not a victory for the American people. This would be a disaster for the American people,” said McGovern.

McGovern went on to rip the Republican party.

“It seems Republicans care more about looking busy than actually doing their jobs. We’re seven months into the fiscal year and my Republican friends set this deadline themselves back in December, so there is absolutely no excuse for Congress to come within hours of yet another shutdown,” McGovern added.

McGovern continued on the bill and called for it to be defeated.

“Republicans wrote the bill. So change the damn bill, don’t just say “trust us, we will pass another bill to fix the fix, and we will get the Senate to NOT make any changes, oh while we are at it, we will get a super-majority in the Senate to support it.”

“Who do you think you’re fooling?

“I urge all of my colleagues to defeat this martial law rule,