Vice President J.D. Vance commented on the negotiations over government funding on Capitol Hill during an interview this morning on “FOX News Sunday.”

VICE PRESIDENT J.D. VANCE: We don’t want to shut down the government, Martha, but it’s really up to the Democrats. Under our system, you need 60 Senate Democrats to vote for the clean continuing resolution that the president and House Republicans have put forward. I think it’s preposterous, Martha. And I think the American people really should pay attention to the fact that Democrats are threatening to shut down the entire government because they want to give hundreds of billions of dollars of health care benefits to illegal aliens. I have never seen anything like it. I have never seen a political party actually advertising the fact that they want to shut down every essential function of government and they want to use that as leverage so that they get more money for illegal alien health care benefits. It’s such a stark contrast between Republicans, who are trying to put the interest of the American people first, and Democrats, who I think just want to take money from the American people to give benefits to illegal aliens. We don’t want to shut down the government. But if Democrats refuse to just pass this clean continuing resolution, that’s exactly what’s going to happen. And I think the Democrats are going to bear the responsibility for it.

Here’s Vance’s full interview:
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