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Congressional Daily Record
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Official title: Government Funding (Executive Session)
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Download official Senate Record PDFReturn to issue contextMr. President, on the CR, Senate Democrats have been unequivocal: We want to work across the aisle to keep the government open. The CR gives us the maneuvering room we need to hash out a budget that makes life more affordable for the American people and reins in the Trump administration's chaos and corruption.
working families. And thanks to Senator Patty Murray's efforts, we have fended off Trump's harmful effort to hold hostage Federal grants that would support communities stretching from one end of the Nation to the other.
Trump has this amazing philosophy: If you are a red State, you deserve the taxpayers' money. If you are a blue State, you don't. And he totally skews our grant-giving to help his friends and to punish his enemies when it has no basis in law, fact, justice, fairness.
deliver, and that is what Senate Democrats are fighting to do every day.
I yield the floor.
I suggest the absence of a quorum.
The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Sheehy). The clerk will call the roll.
The senior assistant executive clerk proceeded to call the roll.
Mr. BARRASSO. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.