AOC slams GOP lawmakers for refusing to negotiate to end the shutdown

Do you think by Thanksgiving the government could still be shut down?

I mean I would certainly hope not. I would certainly hope not. My hope is that we're able to resolve this as quickly as possible. I'm ready to negotiate. Bernie's ready to negotiate. I mean we are all open and ready to do this.

Is anyone actually negotiating right now?

Let me reiterate one point. Republicans aren't in town. How do you negotiate with people who refuse even to show up to do their job?

They're on vacation for, what, a month or so?

Yes, yes, House Republicans have been on vacation for over a month.

But the Republican senators are here, and House Speaker Mike Johnson, we've had him on, he said, we've done our job, we passed the clean CR in the House,

it's now up to the Senate to make these negotiations? They need to pick up a phone, Kaitlin. They need to pick up a phone. They're saying that they're doing all this work. They are twiddling their thumbs and talking to each other. They're they it is actually an unconscionable abdication and refusal to work. They refuse.

I've never seen people who hate working so much in my life. I mean, genuinely. They won't even pick up the phone. They won't. If I were Mike Johnson, you should be in that office negotiating with Hakeem Jeffries every damn day

until we reopen this government. And any day that you don't do that is a failure. It is a failure. It is a failure and until there is accountability for people who refuse to work, to work, then we're until there is accountability for people who refuse to work, to work, then we're gonna continue to be in this cycle.