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Chuck Schumer: “We say we can do both.”

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JUST IN: Chuck Schumer Leads A Press Briefing After Senate Fails To Pass Continuing Resolution

Published October 3, 2025 | Video Starts at 07:49

So it's simple. They can reopen. The only people making it a choice between one and the other, between health care and opening up the government to the Republicans. We're not. We say we can do both. Samuel Klobuchar. So what's at stake here? The Republicans have created a health care crisis. (07:49–07:51)

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Asserts that [Democrats] believe they can both address health care and open the government.

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“60% of people who voted for Trump said extend the tax credits.”
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“If these credits are not extended... the average 55 year old couple making $85,000 a year would see their premiums... go up $25,000.”
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“Undocumented people cannot and will not receive a premium tax credit by Federal law.”
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“Speaker Johnson said the House is out again. Johnson and House Republicans care more about protecting the Epstein files than protecting the…”
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“We've had four votes and they haven't gotten the votes on any of them.”
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“We have asked Republican leaders for months to sit down and talk to us, talk with us. They've refused and barreled us into a shutdown.”
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“The White House and fellow Republicans have vowed to make this a maximum pain shutdown.”
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“Republicans hold the House, the Senate and the White House. They're in charge.”
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“According to NBC Today, Americans are more inclined to blame Trump and Republicans for a shutdown.”
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“71 to 29. And it shows you that's why it's so high, because even 60% of Trump voters want to extend it.”
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“The only people making it a choice between one and the other, between health care and opening up the government to the Republicans.”
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“As I said, we need to protect Americans from these rising, these rising insurance rates, and we need to sit down and negotiate it.”
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“He knows he needs both sides to get it done, plain and simple.”
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“In the White House the other day, he said he didn't want to do any aca, and he said that before in the past as well.”
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“Republicans didn't offer anything really new, just the same old stuff. And so nothing new on [the Affordable Care Act], nothing on…”
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“We need the president to be involved. Johnson and a whole lot of his caucus don't like the [Affordable Care Act], don't want to do the…”
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“We need real improvements in Americans health care, plain and simple.”
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“There's a simple way to end the shutdown. Come and sit down and negotiate a fair bill with us.”
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“60% or 58, I think it is actually of Trump. Voters want it extended.”
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