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Suggested Biden speech on networks Sunday night [1]

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Date: 2023-09-29

On Sunday night, with the shutdown going, President Biden should make a speech covered by the networks (Fox will skip it, of course, but then news really isn’t their thing). I think it should go something like…

Good evening. As you know, Speaker McCarthy and the MAGA Republicans have shut down the government. That means thousands of good American federal employees are now out of work. Thousands of other good American federal employees will be forced to work but not be paid. Our Armed Forces, the men and women who defend our Country with their lives, will not get paid. All the families of those workers and service men and women will not be able to pay their bills, buy food, be sure of having a roof over their heads. All because the MAGA Republicans REFUSED to do their job and fund our government.

Now, Speaker McCarthy and the MAGA Republicans will try to tell you it’s my fault, or the Democratic Party’s fault. That’s a load of malarky and they know it.

They REFUSED to work with Democrats. Heck, they even refused to work with each other! Republicans in the Senate worked with Democrats in the Senate to provide a way to keep the lights on.

But Speaker McCarthy and the MAGA Wing of the Republican Party REJECTED that help. They intended all along to shut down your government, not caring all the pain and suffering it would cause.

You ask why? Because the MAGA Republicans were under orders to shut it down. And those orders came from Donald Trump. He doesn’t care if you are hurt by the shutdown. He wanted to shut down the government because he thought it would help HIM. Not you. Not the country. Not even the other MAGA Republicans. HIM. It was all about HIM.

When Trump and the MAGA Republicans start telling their lies, blaming Democrats and myself, remember that when the Democrats in the House, and the Republicans and Democrats in the Senate reached out to keep the government open, THEY REFUSED ALL HELP. They’ll try to blame me, but then that’s easier than admitting what everyone could see happening in the House, that they wanted this.

When Speaker McCarthy and the House Republicans are ready to reopen your government, to seriously make the effort rather than pretending they’ve been doing, proposing to hurt all Americans with bills they know will never pass, but looks good to their supporters, to shutting down the government because Trump wants it shut down and has said so explicitly several times, that Democrats in the House, and Republicans and Democrats in the Senate, are all ready to do what must be done to keep the promise we all made to you, the American people, to do our job.

Thank you and good night.

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