{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.barrasso.senate.gov/barrasso-slams-democrats-for-practicing-thepolitics-of-pain/", "Barrasso Slams Democrats for Practicing the Politics of Pain", "2025-10-21", "2025", "2025-10", "Republican", "Senate", "WY", "John Barrasso", "B001261", "www.barrasso.senate.gov", "barrasso", "https://www.barrasso.senate.gov/newsroom/news-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), Senate Majority Whip, joined Fox & Friends this morning to discuss his upcoming meeting with President Donald J. Trump at the White House, the ongoing Schumer Shutdown, and President Trump\u2019s historic peace agreement.\n\nWhat can we expect from your meeting with President Trump this afternoon?\n\n\u201cWell Republicans are united, and I expect the President to say, \u2018Stand strong.\u2019\n\n\u201cWhat we\u2019re seeing here are the Democrats practicing the politics of pain, and it\u2019s the American people who are suffering the pain. And it\u2019s the millions of military members, TSA agents, border patrol, people who go to work every day, and they\u2019re wondering, when will they get their next paycheck?\n\n\u201cI talked to someone in Wyoming yesterday who\u2019s in that category, and they\u2019re saying, \u2018I still got to put food on the table. Try to feed the kids. How are we going to do that?\u2019\n\n\u201cThe Democrats don\u2019t seem to care about any of those Americans. They care more about the people in their left wing who want to provide health care for illegal immigrants \u2013 paid for by taxpayers \u2013 rather than pay the men and women in uniform. It\u2019s wrong. They\u2019re afraid of their liberal base.\u201d\n\nWe are on Day 21 of the government shutdown, what is Minority Leader Chuck Schumer\u2019s goal in this Schumer Shutdown?\n\n\u201cYeah, Chuck Schumer is playing a dangerous political game with our country. It\u2019s wrong. You know, he\u2019s told the press, he said, \u2018Every day gets better for us.\u2019 I\u2019m wondering who the \u2018us\u2019 is? It\u2019s not the American people. It\u2019s not the people who go to work every day and are worried about their families. It\u2019s not the people that get on an airplane, the people that are worried about what\u2019s happening at the border. It\u2019s not about them.\n\n\u201cThis is a political game that was orchestrated by Schumer, organized in his office with the far-left base of the party. They had been planning this shutdown for months because Chuck Schumer is afraid of AOC and of his own shadow and of his party, and as the group that nominated Mamdani to be the mayor of New York City, that\u2019s where he lives. Those are the people.\n\n\u201cAnd he\u2019s really afraid of his own voters right now, as in the fact that he\u2019s worried about his own reelection, you ought to be worried about the people of the United States.\u201d\n\nCongressman Chip Roy mentioned Republicans should think about nuking the filibuster for funding bills, is that something you\u2019re considering in the Senate?\n\n\u201cNo, that\u2019s not going to be the case. There aren\u2019t the Republicans that would want to support it.\n\n\u201cThe Democrats would love for us to do that. They tried to do it last time because they wanted to add D.C. and Puerto Rico as states with more Democrat senators.\n\n\u201cThey wanted to expand the Supreme Court from 9 to 13, and they wanted to get rid of voter ID, so that\u2019s not something that we\u2019re going to entertain.\u201d\n\nPresident Trump recently succeeded in garnering a historic peace deal between Israel and Hamas, what are your thoughts on this recent victory?\n\n\u201cWell, the President is really showing what U.S. President Trump is as a global leader he has promised and is keeping his promises of peace through strength.\n\n\u201cTwo weeks ago, nobody would have ever imagined or believed that they could have gotten the hostages out and back, the alive hostages. President Trump delivered there is now a pathway to peace. There\u2019s still a long way to go, but we\u2019re seeing peace through strength.\n\n\u201cConsider what it was like with Joe Biden in the White House, the weakness of wishful thinking. President Trump took decisive action with regard to Iran, knocking out their nuclear capacity. What we\u2019re doing is the right thing.\n\n\u201cNow there\u2019s still the 20-point plan that the President has put in place. There\u2019s a long way to go, but I think we\u2019re on the right path to a lasting and successful peace in the Middle East. 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