Clyburn: Democrats Have Been Trying to Make the Greatnesses of this Country Affordable and Accessible for a Long Time

HUNT: “President Trump posted just a few minutes ago on his Truth Social platform that he wants the Senate to stay through the weekend to get a deal to reopen the government. Now, he wants to do it by ending the filibuster in the Senate. But what does it say to you that the president is now very publicly and repeatedly calling for a deal to end the shutdown? What evidence — what does that show in terms of political pressure on President Trump?”

Clyburn: “There‘s no question about the pressure being there. I see the president seemed to be acting as if the word affordability is a new word to Webster’s thesaurus. That‘s not a new word. Democrats have been running on affordability for a long, long time. The Affordable Healthcare Act, that‘s what we were trying to do. And if anybody will look at the broadband bill, which was my bill, it was called the Accessible, Affordable Broadband for All. That‘s the name of the bill. And so, affordability is not new to us. We have been talking about health care being affordable, education being affordable, energy, housing affordable, affordable housing that‘s been out here for a long, long time. So, Democrats have been trying to make the greatnesses of this country affordable and accessible for all people for a long time. So this is not new, and this is the way for us to really get serious about making all these great things about this great country accessible and affordable for all of its citizens. That‘s what it‘s all about.”