(11 Mar 2025)
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Washington – 11 March 2025
1. Wide of Senate Republican leadership speaking to reporters
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. John Thune, Majority Leader:
“And so here we are, on the brink of a government shutdown, which will be entirely of the Democrats making if it happens, because the House today will be voting on a continuing resolution to fund the government throughout the– throughout the end of the year. And we’ll send that over here to the Senate. Well, we’ll have an opportunity to act on it. A similar continuing resolution passed the end of last year in the Senate with 85 votes. This one should be no different, honestly. But as you all know, it takes 60 votes in the Senate to pass an appropriations bill. So we’re going to need some Democrats to vote for it."
3. Cutaway of reporters
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. John Thune, Majority Leader:
“I believe, is trying to accomplish a specific objective here, and that is to halt the flow of fentanyl into this country. And the tariffs are a tool in order to make that happen. And I am supportive of using tariffs in a way to accomplish a specific objective in this case ending drug traffic. But as I said before, I hope these are temporary. I think the one thing that markets don’t like is uncertainty. And there’s obviously uncertainty, I think, around that tariff policy at the moment.”
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5. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. John Thune, Majority Leader:
“Well, I think we’ve as we’ve done our head count, I think we feel very comfortable that we will deliver a majority vote for this. The question is, can we get the 60 vote supermajority threshold that’s necessary to pass it? In order to do that, we need Democrats.”
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6. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. John Thune, Majority Leader:
“Right now, at least based on what the House is going to do today. And what the president supports is to pass this CR. The question is, will the Democrats filibuster? And we’ll find out soon enough.”
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7. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. John Thune, Majority Leader:
“And I’m hoping that we’ll have the requisite number of Democrats in order to do that. And I think anything else they put out there is a smokescreen, because at this point, there’s really one solution on the table. It keeps the government funded. It addresses the core issues I think a lot of Democrats care about in terms of programs that they want to have funded through the end of the year, and we think it represents the best solution at the moment.”
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8. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Chuck Schumer, Minority Leader:
“Yesterday afternoon, Elon Musk confirmed what many of us have long been warning about. Republicans are ready to gut Social Security and Medicare. Yesterday, Elon Musk again lied in an interview and said that Social Security and Medicaid programs with tens of millions of people who need them, are riddled with fraud and abuse when referring to entitlements, which is exactly what Social Security and Medicaid are, he said ‘most of the federal spending is entitlements. So that’s the big one to eliminate.’ Eliminate!”
9. Cutaway of reporters
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Chuck Schumer, Minority Leader:
(Reporter: “What do you say to some Democrats who might go ahead and vote for this? Because they’re concerned that if the government shuts down, that’s a bad thing, or it gives Elon Musk more enterprise to go through the government?”)
“We’re going to wait and see what the House does first.”
11. Senate Democratic leadership walks away
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