SPOKANE, Wash. — Washington Congressman Michael Baumgartner spoke with media members virtually Sunday afternoon about the government shutdown. He says the shutdown sets a bad precedent when trying to accomplish policy change.

Congressman Baumgartner emphasized that the country is trillions of dollars in debt and the government will be in a budget deficit this year.

According to him, Democrats want a tremendous expansion of funding for the Affordable Care Act and say taxpayer dollars would go into illegal immigrant health care. To which he says Republicans don't think is a reasonable resolution.

Before the shutdown, Congressman Baumgartner says the Republicans offered a "clean continuum spending resolution," which means a resolution with no policy changes in order to keep the government

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