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Patrick Morrisey: “Our National Guard has been working without paying.”

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Gov. Patrick Morrisey Hosts Press Briefing On West Virginia Tourism

Published October 14, 2025 | Video Starts at 00:25

How you doing? Good morning. How you guys doing today? Good. I appreciate you coming. Thank you all for joining us today. Well, it's day 14 of the Schumer shutdown. Our National Guard has been working without paying. Our air traffic controllers are working without pay to keep air travel safe. Federal workers, we have quite a few in West Virginia, they've been furloughed without pay. (00:25–00:29)

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Asserts that the National Guard is working without pay during the shutdown.

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“West Virginia was the first state in the nation to sign an agreement with the feds to keep our national parks open.”
Gov. Patrick Morrisey Hosts Press Briefing On West Virginia Tourism | Uploaded October 14, 2025 | 01:17-01:26
“Last year, our tourism industry had a record breaking year. Over $9.1 billion of economic impact.”
Gov. Patrick Morrisey Hosts Press Briefing On West Virginia Tourism | Uploaded October 14, 2025 | 02:33-02:43
“New River Gorge national park and Preserve welcomed a record 1.8 million visitors this past year.”
Gov. Patrick Morrisey Hosts Press Briefing On West Virginia Tourism | Uploaded October 14, 2025 | 02:46-02:54
“That's a nearly 50% increase since it became America's 63rd national park.”
Gov. Patrick Morrisey Hosts Press Briefing On West Virginia Tourism | Uploaded October 14, 2025 | 02:53-03:01
“West Virginia is a deep outlier in terms of this effort to prevent people from having the most basic of religious exemptions for vaccines…”
Gov. Patrick Morrisey Hosts Press Briefing On West Virginia Tourism | Uploaded October 14, 2025 | 24:10-24:27
“Our air traffic controllers are working without pay to keep air travel safe.”
Gov. Patrick Morrisey Hosts Press Briefing On West Virginia Tourism | Uploaded October 14, 2025 | 00:28-00:34
“Federal workers, we have quite a few in West Virginia, they've been furloughed without pay.”
Gov. Patrick Morrisey Hosts Press Briefing On West Virginia Tourism | Uploaded October 14, 2025 | 00:33-00:40
“West Virginia would be keeping our national parks open, fully operational, during one of the busiest tourism months.”
Gov. Patrick Morrisey Hosts Press Briefing On West Virginia Tourism | Uploaded October 14, 2025 | 00:53-01:03
“Tourism is huge for West Virginia, bringing in billions and billions of dollars every year.”
Gov. Patrick Morrisey Hosts Press Briefing On West Virginia Tourism | Uploaded October 14, 2025 | 01:59-02:07
“Harpers Ferry also saw nearly 490,000 visitors. That was a 15% increase over the past two years.”
Gov. Patrick Morrisey Hosts Press Briefing On West Virginia Tourism | Uploaded October 14, 2025 | 03:27-03:37
“78,000 visited Harpers Ferry just in October.”
Gov. Patrick Morrisey Hosts Press Briefing On West Virginia Tourism | Uploaded October 14, 2025 | 03:37-03:42
“West Virginians and others are going to benefit from some discounts that if you go and have a three day stay in a West Virginia state park…”
Gov. Patrick Morrisey Hosts Press Briefing On West Virginia Tourism | Uploaded October 14, 2025 | 03:44-03:57
“Our agreement with the national parks ends on Friday night.”
Gov. Patrick Morrisey Hosts Press Briefing On West Virginia Tourism | Uploaded October 14, 2025 | 04:57-05:01
“If the federal government fails to reopen by then, I fully intend to extend that agreement and Bridge Day will go on as planned.”
Gov. Patrick Morrisey Hosts Press Briefing On West Virginia Tourism | Uploaded October 14, 2025 | 05:04-05:14
“Local businesses benefit from our national parks, our state parks, and from tourism in general.”
Gov. Patrick Morrisey Hosts Press Briefing On West Virginia Tourism | Uploaded October 14, 2025 | 08:10-08:18
“Our decision to keep [the national parks] open for business [impacts small businesses].”
Gov. Patrick Morrisey Hosts Press Briefing On West Virginia Tourism | Uploaded October 14, 2025 | 08:41-08:43
“The parks were going to be shut down. Now they're at least they're staying open right now.”
Gov. Patrick Morrisey Hosts Press Briefing On West Virginia Tourism | Uploaded October 14, 2025 | 14:33-14:38
“We have a chance for West Virginia to really shine and to send a message across our state and quite frankly across the country that we're…”
Gov. Patrick Morrisey Hosts Press Briefing On West Virginia Tourism | Uploaded October 14, 2025 | 15:25-15:36
“When they put presented to me $7,000 a day. I thought that was a really good deal.”
Gov. Patrick Morrisey Hosts Press Briefing On West Virginia Tourism | Uploaded October 14, 2025 | 16:43-16:49
“We know that some of these communities actually are being hurt right now by the Schumer shutdown.”
Gov. Patrick Morrisey Hosts Press Briefing On West Virginia Tourism | Uploaded October 14, 2025 | 17:11-17:18
“There will be an extension of the agreement with respect to the national parks at a minimum for the next two weeks.”
Gov. Patrick Morrisey Hosts Press Briefing On West Virginia Tourism | Uploaded October 14, 2025 | 19:37-19:45
“We're worried about federal workers that are being furloughed right now.”
Gov. Patrick Morrisey Hosts Press Briefing On West Virginia Tourism | Uploaded October 14, 2025 | 20:17-20:21
“It's important to stop the Schumer shutdown.”
Gov. Patrick Morrisey Hosts Press Briefing On West Virginia Tourism | Uploaded October 14, 2025 | 20:35-20:38
“I've asked for a religious exemption and we're trying to push that and articulate that to get West Virginia in the mainstream.”
Gov. Patrick Morrisey Hosts Press Briefing On West Virginia Tourism | Uploaded October 14, 2025 | 24:26-24:34
“Because of herd immunity, that there isn't the kind of effect that a lot of our people, people in our public health community are claiming…”
Gov. Patrick Morrisey Hosts Press Briefing On West Virginia Tourism | Uploaded October 14, 2025 | 24:40-24:49
“The rural health deadline is November 5th.”
Gov. Patrick Morrisey Hosts Press Briefing On West Virginia Tourism | Uploaded October 14, 2025 | 25:28-25:33