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Shut down the government. >> it sounds like, you know, you're saying that democrats don't have a role here when i mean they do. what must be included in a stopgap bill for you to come to the table or what can you just not vote for? >> look, we think a simple cr would -- has no other policy in it which is essentially what we did in september and we voted for, we understand that policy, but only in the event that they'll do some work in the interim to try to do the right things that we need to do to keep government funding, that we need to invest in the c.h.i.p. program to keep the c.h.i.p. prog...

Drama, keep the government open, extend the debt, limit in september. 90 republicans voted against that. every democrat voted for it. the government kept up. what we are confronted with is a take or leave it proposition on a cr and supplemental. both of which we think do not properly do the business of government. so, we may not vote for things that are jammed down our throat, but we don't want to shut down the republicans. we think the republicans should not shut down the government. if they want to do things purely on a partisan basis, which has been the fact we've been confronted with, fran...

Page they don't need a single democrat. >> you know, poppy, i worked in the house of representatives when we had the 2013 shutdown. that was a divided government and i tell you it was still republicans' fault that the government shutdown. we brought it on to ourselves. the difference is here, obviously, we have republican government wholesale so that means we would be responsible for this, but what i'm hearing from sources at the rules committee in the house and the house appropriations committee, is that they feel pretty confident they can get a short-term cr, pass a separate supplemental bil...

All-republican led tax initiative is not even yet signed into law and now already a shutdown is potentially looming, and potentially turning into a crisis. as we speak republicans are battling republicans, republicans are battling democrats, democrats are battling republicans, house members are battling senators all over keeping the government that you as u.s. taxpayers keep up and running. the stop gap tax bill that has been in effect runs out at midnight eastern on saturday, just 38 hours from now. the president just wrote this on twitter, quote, house democrats want a shutdown for the holid...