The Hill News

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell made the following remarks on the Senate floor Friday regarding negotiations to reduce Washington spending: 

The American people have heard a lot of excuses over the past few days as to why it is that we’re staring at a potential government shutdown here in Washington. 

Democrats are saying the holdup is over social issues. This plays nicely into the political strategy they’ve decided on to distract people from their own fiscal recklessness. 

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