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Mike Rounds: “A shutdown is not good for anybody.”

Featuring: Mike Rounds, Republican | U.S. Senate South Dakota

Rounds Joins Leland Vittert on NewsNation to Discuss Government Shutdown

Published November 10, 2025 | Video Starts at 00:29

… point to the subsidies for Obamacare for the Affordable Care act in order to keep premiums, prices from just skyrocketing? Look, first of all, thanks for the opportunity to respond. A shutdown is not good for anybody. We started talking about the fact that this was going to be a problem back in September. And the message that we had for them was is we have to fix health care in America. (00:29–00:33)

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Asserts that government shutdowns are detrimental to everyone.

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“People with incomes over 400% of the poverty level are getting a huge amount of subsidies right now in [this accelerated one on] Obamacare.”
Rounds Joins Leland Vittert on NewsNation to Discuss Government Shutdown | Uploaded November 10, 2025 | 01:13-01:24
“We could lose 18,000 people who can't afford their health insurance if we don't do something to help them.”
Rounds Joins Leland Vittert on NewsNation to Discuss Government Shutdown | Uploaded November 10, 2025 | 02:50-02:57
“We have to fix health care in America.”
Rounds Joins Leland Vittert on NewsNation to Discuss Government Shutdown | Uploaded November 10, 2025 | 00:40-00:43
“It's not a matter of just putting $35 billion back into the same thing in which the prices are going up at over 7% a year.”
Rounds Joins Leland Vittert on NewsNation to Discuss Government Shutdown | Uploaded November 10, 2025 | 00:48-00:57
“We have the appropriations bills ready to go. We hope to be able to roll out three tomorrow.”
Rounds Joins Leland Vittert on NewsNation to Discuss Government Shutdown | Uploaded November 10, 2025 | 03:15-03:22
“In the United States Senate, we are united on the Republican side and the votes are not there to do this.”
Rounds Joins Leland Vittert on NewsNation to Discuss Government Shutdown | Uploaded November 10, 2025 | 05:22-05:29
“If it goes back to a 50 50, the first thing our Democrat colleagues would do when they come back in is create two more Democrat senators in…”
Rounds Joins Leland Vittert on NewsNation to Discuss Government Shutdown | Uploaded November 10, 2025 | 05:31-05:42