Rounds Supports Deal to end 35-Day Government Shutdown

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Rounds Supports Deal to end 35-Day Government Shutdown

Earlier today, President Trump Announced Agreement on Continuing Resolution to Reopen Government for Three Weeks

PIERRE—U.S. Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) today issued the following statement regarding the agreement to reopen government through February, 15, 2019:

“I’ve said all along that nobody wins in a shutdown. I’m glad a deal has been reached on a three-week Continuing Resolution so hardworking federal employees can get paid and important federal services can resume. Congress and the president must now work diligently on a long-term appropriations package and strengthening border security.

“The senselessness of the past 35 days, coupled with another short-term CR, underscores the need to reform the entire budget process, which has only worked in 4 of the past 45 years. Government shutdowns and continuing resolutions are wasteful, ineffective and destabilize government programs, making them more difficult for our citizens to utilize.”

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9 thoughts on “Rounds Supports Deal to end 35-Day Government Shutdown”

        1. Yes, indeed! Jon Stewart said that the age of Trump is the “strangest time in American history since the Salem Trials,” ……except this time there are real witches to be had.

  2. Yesterday, Rounds wanted a wall, but today not so much….. Say, whatever happen to “Art of the Deal?”

  3. Trump did take the Federal workers into consideration, Democrats not so much so, Truth is Democrats care not a whit about border security. They would rather claim a win over Trump than protect the border. Any person killed by someone illegally in this country is just collateral damage to their open border policy.

    1. How does a wall make us safer, when a t-shirt shooter can be used to get drugs across a wall, or even a ladder? Or how about the fact, that a majority of Americans don’t buy Trump’s wall plan? Your ill fated attempt to blame the Democrats is actually a blaming of the American people, who know better than Trump….

    2. This is essentially the same thing Trump could’ve signed back in December and there would never have been a shutdown. He said he’d own it and he lost. Now he’s in a precarious position where he can’t push for another shutdown in 3 weeks.

  4. They tried so what more can you ask.
    One party or branch can’t run roughshod over the other. At least without 60 senate votes.
    In the past and in the future our side can appreciate that concept.

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