Sen. Mast on Gov’t Shutdown: Dems ‘Are Upset About All the Pork That We’ve Cut Out of the Gov’t’

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BARTIROMO: “You and your colleagues were able to get the $150 billion and department of war and defense in the ice deportation to the one big beautiful bill but Democrats want more spending on the Affordable Care Act. What he want to say about the government shutdown were a couple days before the shutdown Congress is yet to drop the deal in Congress is warning federal agencies to raise for mass firings and layoffs if a shutdown happens. What do you think that happened.”

MAST: “Number one what do Democrats want they say is all about healthcare but that isn’t even coming up for a number of months so that’s not what it’s about is all about pork their upset with the pork that we cut out of the government transgender job fairs in shows and operas and musicals those are things that icon the foreign affairs and they want to bring all of this backend their upset we cut taxes they want to move away from the taxes we cut and they want to make sure to use the opportunity to fund the government as a time and place to have the battle. As it relates to mass firings. Every time there’s a government shutdown what happened these agencies say we’re going to release all nonessential workers and were only to keep the essential workers on if you are releasing people as nonessential this can beg the question what are they doing there in the first place.”