BATON ROUGE - Louisiana officials on both sides gave their insight on impending federal government shutdown Friday.

Senator John Kennedy (R), on the Senate floor, criticized Democrats for not willing to work with Republicans.

"It looks like we're going to have a shutdown," Kennedy said. "What does that tell us? I'll tell you what it tells me: It's simply that much more evidence that human evolution is a slow, slow process. I thought humans had advanced more as a species, but apparently, we haven't."

Senator Bill Cassidy (R) joined him in that criticism, saying the shutdown would harm Americans needing the National Flood Insurance Program.

“If Democrats would stop trying to please the fringe of their party and start focusing on the real, immediate needs of the American people—like keepi

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