Swalwell: I Won’t Support Any Short Term CR that Doesn’t Impose Parity on the Military and Protects DREAMers

‘Certainly keeping the government open while federal workers toil away for our safety and the troops who serve abroad, that has to be a priority’

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SWALWELL: "I hope yes to both. Certainly keeping the government open for the -- the federal workers toil away for our safety and the troops who serve abroad, that has to be a priority. But, you know, I'm not going to support any short-term extension that doesn’t do the hard work of having parity in the defense and domestic spending that protects the DREAMers who are here and also takes care of children’s health care. We can do all of that. We’re called to do big things and it’s time to stop living incrementally."

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