CHC Chair Statement on Government Shutdown
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January 20, 2018
Washington, D.C. – The Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) Chair Michelle Lujan Grisham (NM-01) issued the following statement in reaction to the government shutdown:
"For the White House and the leaders of the Republican-controlled Congress to blame Dreamers, young people who have done everything this country has asked of them, for the government shutdown is a new low. This shutdown is a result of Republican inaction and incompetence.
"Instead of negotiating spending caps so that we could pass a budget like our military officials asked for, reauthorizing CHIP, or fully funding community health centers, the White House and Republicans spent all of last year trying to take away people's health coverage, terminating DACA, and fast-tracking an unpopular and costly tax bill.
"We have been committed to working in a productive manner to craft bipartisan solutions to these pressing issues. In fact, you can look at the Dream Act, U.S.A. Act, numerous CHIP and community health center proposals as evidence of this. It's time for Republican leaders to stop playing politics with peoples' lives and reopen the government."
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The Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC), founded in December 1976, is organized as a Congressional Member organization, governed under the Rules of the U.S. House of Representatives. The CHC is dedicated to voicing and advancing, through the legislative process, issues affecting Hispanics in the United States, Puerto Rico and U.S. Territories.