[Breitbart] In his Sunday appearance on New York AM 970 radio’s "The Cats Roundtable" with John Catsimatidis, Rep. Lee Zeldin’s (R-NY) commented on the ongoing partial government shutdown, saying if pay for Congress were to be cut off, there would be a budget deal for border wall funding in as soon as 45 minutes.
"It’s difficult to miss one paycheck. It becomes increasingly difficult to miss a second paycheck," Zeldin told Catsimatidis. "I really do believe that you should lock every member of Congress in a room, bring the president in, no phones, no pay, you’re not leaving until there’s white smoke; you need to negotiate, compromise with each other, with the president. And I think you can have a deal within maybe it’s 45 minutes, maybe it’s four hours
"It’s crazy to me that you have members of Congress getting paid while ... you have Coast Guardsmen who are not," he added. |