WASHINGTON – This afternoon, Congressman Byron Donalds (R-FL) joined The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show on Premiere Networks to discuss the unreasonable demands of Senate Democrats and the lasting legacy of his friend Charlie Kirk.

Watch the full interview here.

"I think if the government shuts down it's because he [Chuck Schumer] is going to bend the knee to the radicals in the Democrat Party":

"The way I look at it, Chuck Schumer doesn't want to look like he's being bullied. I'm just telling you straight, when Chuck Schumer worked with President Trump to keep the government open, he took a lot of grief from the radicals in his party. And, you know, I think if the government shuts down it's because he is going to bend the knee to the radicals in the Democrat Party. I mean, look, Donald Trump has delivered on the agenda that he promised the American people. The Democrats were soundly rejected last November. Elections do have consequences and so if Chuck Schumer wants to shutdown the government and have a Schumer shutdown, it's simply because he wants the radical policies that the American people rejected to be funded by Donald Trump and executed by Donald Trump. And that is not going to happen, period - everybody knows it."

"I don't think we would be in the position we are right now, not just the Republican Party but the conservative movement, without Charlie Kirk":

"I was in my office in Washington, I was actually in the middle of a meeting. My comms director called me out - which he almost never does so I was like, 'uh oh, what's happening?' And, uh, you know, he showed me, um, the video and honestly I just doubled over. I doubled over, it was painful to watch. And, you know, you try to do your best to just kinda stay on track and take care of your business. And then the news started coming across that Charlie had died from that assassin's bullet. He was, he was special, man. He's one of one. I know we were planning on doing like campus tours throughout Florida over the next year, something that we had had conversations about. His team and my team were trying to work through that. But on a broader level, Charles Kirk, he has changed the political fabric in this country for conservatism. And he did it basing his dream of bringing young people into the political debate of what conservative policy actually is, what western civilization is, how great that is and why Judeo-Christian values are the value set that allow people to thrive and be successful. And I don't think we would be in the position we are right now, not just the Republican Party but the conservative movement, without Charlie Kirk. He's going to be missed and he's not going to be replaced."

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