Senators Braun and Young talk about shutdown

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As the partial government shutdown continues, Indiana Senator Todd Young is calling on congressional Democrats to revert to their previous position of passing border security funding, which he says the have moved away from.  Young spoke to Indianapolis radio on Wednesday and said “Nancy Pelosi could end this shutdown today. “All she needs to do is agree with Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer from just month ago.”  Young reiterated President Trump’s claim there is a humanitarian and national security crisis on the U.S’s southern border. As far as whether or not he supports the president declaring a national emergency on the matter, Young held his cards close. “I was initially uncertain on whether a national emergency could be declared under these circumstances,” Young explained. “I’ve since looked at legal precedent where national emergencies have been called in all manner of cases. Let’s just say there is a plausible case to be made.”

The shutdown is the longest of any kind in U.S. history. President Trump’s own economic advisors say the shutdown is slashing a tenth of percent from the US economy for every week that it continues.

Indiana Republican Senator Mike Braun says he doesn’t see any movement from either Democrats or Republicans to end the government shutdown. In an interview Wednesday with 93 WIBC’s Tony Katz, Senator Braun says the shutdown is “at the point where to get something done.”  Sen. Braun points to Democrats for prolonging the shutdown.  “President Trump said that we’re going to get something to put some border security in place and the Democrats have gone and an about face from where they were willing to do so much here recently and now they’re digging in politically,” says Sen. Braun.  Senator Braun believes the funding for a border wall with Mexico should come out of the federal budget because funding it by the President declaring through a national emergency may not work.  “I think if it did go to a declaration as a national emergency, it would immediately get caught up in the courts and I don’t know that it would accomplish what we all want to see done,” says Sen. Braun, who says he would still support the President’s decision if he were to declare border security a national emergency in order to try and start construction on a border wall.

The partial government shutdown has been ongoing since Saturday, Dec. 22, 2018.