Senator Brown Votes With Majority on Temporary Spending Measure, Pledges to Put Illegal Aliens Ahead of Citizens.

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Senator Sherrod Brown voted today to reopen the government and finally provide certainty for families who rely on the Children’s Health Insurance Program. Sen. Brown vowed to continue working toward a long-term, bipartisan solution on a number of key Ohio priorities, including protections for Dreamers (How is that an "Ohio priority"?)  and funding to combat the opioid epidemic. He will continue working for the long-term budget Ohioans deserve, rather than short-term patches that lead to uncertainty and hurt our military readiness. Today’s vote will give both sides time to reach that solution.

“We cannot continue limping along from one budget to the next – that’s no way to run our government,” said Brown. “Over the weekend I talked to Republicans and Democrats, and I’m confident we are very close to reaching a long-term compromise to provide the certainty Ohio families deserve. That’s why I’m voting today to reopen the government. I applaud the six-year extension of CHIP, and now we must move forward on achieving bipartisan solutions to important issues like protecting the retirement workers have earned, combating the opioid epidemic and protecting undocumented children who’ve known no other home than America.


“In my conversations over the weekend, it was clear that Senators on both sides of the aisle want to work together to end the constant uncertainty coming from Washington, and I'm hopeful this will be the beginning of more cooperation and bipartisanship in the months ahead.”


Senator Brown strongly opposed the government shutdown and moved to reopen the government immediately last night. He worked through the weekend toward a bipartisan solution to reopen the government, and in an effort to secure a long term budget that provides certainty for Ohio families, businesses, and military installations. 

As budget negotiations continued over the weekend, Senator Brown moved to pass an immediate extension of the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) – no strings attached.

Senator Brown also introduced legislation to ensure that members of the military get paid and members of Congress do not. In the interim, he announced that, until that legislation passes, he will donate any pay he receives during a shutdown to Ohio diaper banks (That's appropriate) that support struggling families, while Republican Leadership held Ohio’s 209,000 children on the Children’s Health Insurance program hostage to Republicans’ failed budget process. (Uhm, more like Democrats held the children hostage in favor of illegal aliens.)