Nurses’ union calls on Congress to pass funding bill and end shutdown
The National Nurses United has urged lawmakers to pass a funding bill and end the government shutdown to “save lives by restoring health care funding and assistance.”
The NNU, which says it is the country’s largest nursing union, said it was also time to end “the Trump administration’s unprecedented power over government spending.”
The union said in a statement that Republicans were blame for the shutdown, having “manufactured this impasse by refusing to negotiate with Democrats as a means to further degrade and gut critical public services and to advance an agenda to privatize vital functions.”
The NNU has separately written to members of Congress urging them to find an agreement.
Republican Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., has accused Democrats of holding the government “hostage” by not agreeing the bill and suggested more would support it as the pain of the shutdown takes hold.
