Rep. Rohrabacher To CNN Host: "Whose Bidding Are You Doing?"
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) spars with CNN's Ashleigh Banfield over the budget battle in Congress.
BANFIELD: Why connect the funding of the government, the entire U.S. economy, why bring it to this brink? Why not do it at all the other times? All of the other 100-plus congresses have been able to fund the government.
ROHRABACHER: Well, have you addressed that to the Senate? We've already offered a compromise. You're telling your listeners that we Republicans are holding this up, and the government is going to shut down. We have actually reached out to the Democrats with a compromise position.
BANFIELD: Congressman, that's not fair. Don't you dare put this back on me. You know full well you attached Obamacare and defunding it.
ROHRABACHER: Am I a guest on this news show or am I here to listen to a tirade?
BANFIELD: You cannot make something up.
ROHRABACHER: Am I a guest on your news show or are you here to give us a tirade?
BANFIELD: You can't make up facts, sir. You passed a bill back to the Senate saying defund Obamacare.
ROHRABACHER: This is the same thing we're putting up with with the Senate. We offer a compromise. They won't even talk to us about it. You won't even talk to us about it. Whose bidding are you doing? We have offered the compromise. We don't like Obamacare, they like it, we have reached out half-way to them, put on the table a proposal, passed a resolution to keep the government going. They opposed the resolution to keep the government going and now say, "There's no negotiations. We get it all or you get nothing." And you're blaming us for the shutdown of the government?
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