On Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The Weeknight,” Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) reacted to Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) and Angus King (I-ME) voting with Republicans to avert a government shutdown by saying that “Republicans need to come to the table and negotiate a bipartisan deal to get bipartisan votes that can both open the government and fix this healthcare crisis. But we cannot have any more Democratic senators who are voting yes because they’re worried about a shutdown.”

Goldman said, “Republicans rammed all that through with the big ugly bill, and we could do nothing. But now they need Senate Democrats. And so, what do they do? They just go with their own, partisan bill that continues all of the cuts to health care. We Democrats have to stand up for the health care of Americans,

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