Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) explains how Democrats might support a CR to avoid a government shutdown.
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00:00I think the American people should realize that the best path forward here is to do what
00:06we normally do, which is appropriations bills, which sometimes we have to do a short-term
00:10CR to get there.
00:12We could pass a 28-day CR, and then we could pass the appropriations bills that have come
00:17out of the subcommittees on appropriations, bipartisan bills.
00:21That makes sense.
00:23That funds the government the way we all agree to.
00:26The other two options are bad options.
00:29If we shut down the government, that's generally considered by many people as not a good thing
00:36to do.
00:38And especially in this environment, when we have an unelected billionaire that's already
00:41shutting down parts of the government, the president could certainly give him the authority
00:46— this wouldn't surprise me — where Elon Musk gets to decide what gets opened back
00:51up.