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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), a member of Senate Republican leadership and a senior member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, joined "FOX News Sunday" with Shannon Bream to discuss the Schumer Shutdown and national security issues.

HIGHLIGHTS:

ON REPUBLICANS PROTECTING THE FILIBUSTER: “We’re not going to drop the filibuster. It wouldn’t pass, number one. I signed a letter in 2017 I would not vote to get rid of the filibuster. The simple vote here is to simply open the government. We have a bipartisan measure that has no strings attached to it, except for a seven-week extension of government funding. That’s the easy part here. To say that Republicans are obstructing doesn’t even pass the laugh test, in my opinion.”

ON DEMOCRATS PLAYING POLITICS WITH GOVERNMENT FUNDING: “I think it’s very obvious what’s going on here, the politics of this. Senator Schumer has already said, ‘this is getting better for us every day.’ That’s the game they’re playing and now it’s really impacting a lot of people all across this country.”

ON REPUBLICANS OFFERING DEMOCRATS A VOTE ON ACA SUBSIDIES: “John Thune tweeted on Friday and he’s said this numerous times in his speeches on the floor, and also to the press, that we’re ready to talk about healthcare, to talk about the system they created, to talk about Obamacare that is now unaffordable, which we knew it would be when we voted against it several years ago. Senator Thune has said numerous times that we will talk about this, but he’s not going to let the government be held hostage and hijacked over an issue.”

ON A POTENTIAL DEAL BETWEEN UKRAINE AND RUSSIA: “I think the president is hoping that by getting Putin to the table again that he can reach some kind of agreement. He has reiterated numerous times, no war, stop the killing, we need peace. This is what the president really feels. You can see what he did in the Middle East and I think that gives him good momentum.”

ON COMBATTING THE DRUG CARTELS: “I think the basic thing that the president is going after is something that really hits my state quite deeply, and that is the narco-terrorism that goes on, the fentanyl that’s coming into this country and killing people, killing them in droves.”

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