This shutdown is being driven by Chuck Schumer and the radical left. It is shameful and completely hypocritical because Schumer knows full well he is playing partisan games with people’s lives.

If Schumer and the Democrats were serious about avoiding a shutdown, they would have supported the House-passed funding bill or backed my Eliminate Shutdowns Act.

There were two clear opportunities to keep the government open — Democrats rejected both.

As I said in my floor speech Monday night, this shutdown was completely avoidable.

My Eliminate Shutdowns Act would end the drama and uncertainty of Congress’s budgetary dysfunction. The bill ends government shutdowns by establishing two-week rolling continuing resolutions to fund the government if there is a lapse in appropriations.

Aren’t you getting sick and tired of these government shutdowns? The drama, the turmoil, the partisan bickering, and holding the American people hostage for demands of billions and billions of dollars for more spending we can’t afford?

The American people don’t like these shutdowns. They want them ended. We have a very simple bill, not partisan, that offers no advantage to anybody. It keeps the government open and gives appropriators time to do appropriating, appropriate those departments, and end all the chaos, all the turmoil, and all the games with people’s lives.

Learn More about the Eliminate Shutdowns Act:

WATCH BELOW —> Entire Floor Speech on Eliminate Shutdowns Act (23 minutes)

Click to WATCH —> Wall Street Journal Podcast: Sen. Ron Johnson Wants to End Government Shutdowns for Good

Click to READ —> Wall Street Journal Op-Ed: My Plan to End Government Shutdowns Forever

Click to WATCH —> CNN interview on The Lead with Jake Tapper