Rep. Rose: The Shutdown a ‘National Crisis,’ Having the SOTU Would Be ‘an Absurdity’

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CAMEROTA: “And so -- so about the State of the Union address -- you know, Nancy Pelosi said she doesn’t believe that the president — she sent a note saying that he should postpone it. You said she’s bailing the president out. What does that mean?”
ROSE: “So the question here is not whether there are security concerns or not. But the question really is whether or not a State of the Union during a shutdown would be an absurdity. OK? What is the president going to stand up and say, hey, the state of our union is the federal government is not open for business. We have to start looking at this shutdown as a national crisis, one that has to immediately be resolved so that we can make sure our national security is preserved and we are also paying people who are doing their jobs honorably. So, I think that a State of the Union address right now would be -- would be crazy.”