During my time in Congress, I voted for clean funding bills with both Republicans and Democrats — precisely the kind of legislation put forth by Senate Republicans that Senate Democrats are rejecting — because I understood government shutdowns hurt our workforce.

My colleagues on the other side of the aisle agreed with this commonsense position as recently as last year. In fact, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) even said that “no reasonable member on either side — Democrat or Republican — wants a government shutdown.”

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