WATCH: Rep. Min on CNN Slams GOP for Looming Government Shutdown, “The Onus Lies on Them”

Washington, D.C. — Last night, Representative Dave Min (CA-47) joined CNN’s The Brief with Jim Sciutto where he slammed House Republicans for barreling America towards a government shutdown.

Watch the CNN segment here. 

On GOP ownership of the government shutdown:

“Look, I think a lot of attention has been placed on Democrats. I think that attention should rightly be placed on Republicans. I'm here in Washington, D.C.. I don't think very many of my Republican colleagues are here. I'm here because I want the government to stay open. I'm prepared to try to work, get to work, to make that happen. But if you look at what's happened in the last nine months, and I've only been in Congress just over nine months, Republicans control the House, they control the Senate, they control the presidency. And they've been pushing through the most aggressive and radical agenda we've ever seen in my lifetime on a party line vote over and over and over. And it's not an accident that these shutdowns always happen when Republicans have control [...]I think if we're going to apportion blame here for any shutdown that happens, we have to look to Republicans who have not tried at all this year to reach across the aisle. I have not been contacted by my Republican colleagues or the White House. And so they're trying to push everything through on a partisan line vote. So if they can't get the votes here, I think the onus lies on them.” 

On protecting health care for millions of Americans: 

“Obviously, I'm one of many Democrats. But if they want to consider our vote, we'd need to think about the 30,000 people in my district that are going to lose their health care if things don't move right now. We also need to think about the fact that Elon Musk and Donald Trump earlier this year illegally fired thousands of workers. They cut entire programs. Institutions like UC Irvine in my district are firing hundreds of people because the science and research and funding, including for cancer research, have been illegally cut. So, again, we're not consulted on any of that. I think if we are going to pass any kind of funding package, we need to make sure that my constituents are taken care of on health care. But also we need real assurances that that money is going to be used for the purposes that we allocated for, that Donald Trump and his lackeys don't continue to try to say, hey, even though Congress said they're funding X number of dollars in cancer research, we're going to reallocate that funding to something else.”

On Redistricting: 

“I was a law professor before going into politics. But, you know, a lot of this comes down to, I think, the wrongly decided decisions by the Supreme Court, to allow for partisan gerrymandering. And so, you may know that states like Ohio, Texas, and Florida already did partisan gerrymandering in 2021. They drew as many Republican seats as they could without being racist. And so what they are now doing with the second bite at the apple is drawing racist districts under the expectation that the Supreme Court will strike the racial discrimination prohibitions of the Voting Rights Act. And so that's what this is all about. It's all being directed out of the White House. If you're following what's happening right now, this is not something that's happening organically across red states. It is the White House pushing these maps onto different states to try to steal as many seats as possible. It is undermining democracy, but it is also a serious sign that they know how unpopular their agenda is. That they know they will lose the House of Representatives unless they cheat, lie and steal as much as possible. So yeah, it's terrible for democracy. It's terrible. What they're doing right now in undermining trust in our democracy and our fair and free elections. But that, unfortunately, is what this administration has been doing over the last nine months.”

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