At a press conference Tuesday morning, House Republican leaders criticized their Democrat counterparts as being irresponsible for not backing the continuing resolution to fund the federal government through the end of the current fiscal year.
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., told reporters, “We [Republicans] have a responsibility to deliver for the American people, and we’re going to do it, with or without the Democrat Party.”
Scalise argued that congressional Democrats were being hypocritical if they voted to shut down the government and thereby furlough federal workers after criticizing the Republican Party for cutting the size of the federal workforce.
“You saw a lot of Democrats over the last few weeks show up at federal buildings with some federal employees who haven’t been able to find their federal headquarters to go to work for the…
