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  • The President: Hello, everybody!

  • (applause)

  • Good to see all of you.

  • Please, please have a seat.

  • Well, hello, Rockville!

  • Let me start by recognizing three public servants

  • who fight hard every day

  • for Maryland families and businesses.

  • First of all, Congressman Chris Van Hollen is here.

  • (applause)

  • Yay, Chris!

  • Congressman John Delaney is here.

  • (applause)

  • And we have the acting head

  • of the Small Business Administration --

  • Jeanne Hulit is here.

  • (applause)

  • And I also want to give a big thanks to your bosses,

  • Cidalia and Natalia, for being such gracious hosts.

  • I had a chance to meet them at the White House.

  • (applause)

  • Thank you.

  • Now I know where they got their good looks from,

  • because I had a chance to meet mom and dad,

  • and their beautiful families.

  • So I'm so glad to be here.

  • And I had a chance to learn a little bit about their story.

  • So when their parents brought them from Portugal to America

  • almost 40 years ago,

  • no one in the family spoke a word of English.

  • But that didn't stop their father, Manuel,

  • and their mother, Albertina, from having a big dream --

  • believing that if they worked hard, they could get ahead,

  • and that even though they'd never had any schooling,

  • maybe their daughters could go to college;

  • maybe in America you could make it if you tried.

  • That's what they believed.

  • So they started their own construction company

  • with a pickup truck and a wheelbarrow.

  • And when Cidalia and Natalia turned 14,

  • they began to help --

  • cleaning tools, translating documents.

  • And they became the first in their family to go to college.

  • After graduation, they started their own business,

  • and later they bought the family business from their parents.

  • So today, M. Luis Construction is a $60 million company

  • with about 250 employees.

  • (applause)

  • And I understand you're opening your fourth office

  • at the end of this month.

  • So this story is what America is all about.

  • You start off -- maybe you don't have a lot --

  • but you're willing to work hard,

  • you put in the time, opportunities out there,

  • and you're able to pass on an even better life to your family,

  • your children, your grandchildren.

  • And it's good news that after how hard the construction

  • industry got hit during the recession,

  • things are starting to get a little better.

  • Remember, it was just five years ago

  • that our economy was in free fall.

  • Businesses were shedding hundreds of thousands of jobs

  • every single month,

  • and the recession ultimately

  • cost millions of Americans their jobs,

  • their homes, their savings --

  • everything they had worked hard to build.

  • Today, over the last three and a half years,

  • our businesses have added 7.5 million new jobs.

  • (applause)

  • Our deficits are falling.

  • Our housing market is healing, which means construction

  • is improving; manufacturing is growing;

  • the auto industry is back.

  • America is on pace to become the number one energy producer

  • in the world this year.

  • (applause)

  • More small businesses have gotten loans

  • so they can grow and they can hire --

  • just like M. Luis did

  • with the help of the Small Business Jobs Act

  • that I signed three years ago.

  • So that's part of what allowed this company to grow.

  • (applause)

  • So we still have a long way to go.

  • We've still got a lot of work to do,

  • especially to rebuild the middle class.

  • But we're making steady progress.

  • And the reason I'm here is,

  • we can't afford to threaten that progress right now.

  • Right now, hundreds of thousands of Americans,

  • hardworking Americans, suddenly aren't receiving their paycheck.

  • Right now, they're worrying about missing the rent,

  • or their mortgage, or even making ends meet.

  • We can all relate to that.

  • Imagine if suddenly you weren't sure

  • whether you were going to get your next paycheck,

  • with all the bills that might be mounting up.

  • Well, that's what's happening right now

  • to hundreds of thousands of Americans across the country.

  • Companies like this one worried that their businesses

  • are going to be disrupted, because obviously,

  • particularly in an area like Maryland, Virginia,

  • where there are a lot of federal workers,

  • you don't know how that's going to impact the economy.

  • Veterans, seniors, women --

  • they're all worrying that the services they depend on

  • will be disrupted too.

  • And the worst part is, this time it's not because

  • of a once-in-a-lifetime recession.

  • This isn't happening because of some financial crisis.

  • It's happening because of a reckless

  • Republican shutdown in Washington.

  • Audience Member: That's right!

  • (applause)

  • The President: Now, we've all seen the offices locked down,

  • the monuments closed.

  • We've heard about services denied,

  • we've heard about benefits that are delayed.

  • But the impacts of a shutdown go way beyond

  • those things that you're seeing on television.

  • Those hundreds of thousands of Americans --

  • a lot of whom live around here --

  • don't know when they're going to get their next paycheck,

  • and that means stores and restaurants around here

  • don't know if they'll have as many customers.

  • Across the country you've got farmers in rural areas

  • and small business owners who deserve a loan,

  • but they're being left in the lurch right now.

  • They might have an application pending as we speak,

  • but there's nobody in the office to process the loan.

  • The SBA gives a billion dollars of loans a month

  • to small businesses --

  • a billion dollars a month goes to small businesses

  • all across the country.

  • Right now those can't be processed

  • because there's nobody there to process them.

  • Veterans who deserve our support are getting less help.

  • Little kids who deserve a Head Start have been sent home

  • from the safe places where they learn and grow every single day.

  • And of course, their families then have to scramble

  • to figure out what to do.

  • And the longer this goes on, the worse it will be.

  • And it makes no sense.

  • The American people elected their representatives

  • to make their lives easier, not harder.

  • And there is one way out of this reckless

  • and damaging Republican shutdown:

  • Congress has to pass a budget that funds our government

  • with no partisan strings attached.

  • (applause)

  • Now, I want everybody to understand what's happened,

  • because sometimes when this gets reported on

  • everybody kind of thinks,

  • well, you know, both sides are just squabbling;

  • Democrats and Republicans, they're always arguing,

  • so neither side is behaving properly.

  • I want everybody to understand what's happened here.

  • The Republicans passed a temporary budget for two months

  • at a funding level that we, as Democrats,

  • actually think is way too low because we're not providing help

  • for more small businesses,

  • doing more for early childhood education,

  • doing more to rebuild our infrastructure.

  • But we said, okay, while we're still trying

  • to figure out this budget,

  • we're prepared to go ahead

  • and take the Republican budget levels that they proposed.

  • So the Senate passed that with no strings attached --

  • not because it had everything the Democrats wanted.

  • In fact, it had very little that the Democrats wanted.

  • But we said, let's go ahead and just make sure that other people

  • aren't hurt while negotiations are still taking place.

  • So that's already passed the Senate.

  • And we know there are enough Republicans and Democrats

  • to vote in the House of Representatives

  • for the same thing.

  • So I want everybody to understand this:

  • There are enough Republicans and Democrats

  • in the House of Representatives today that,

  • if the Speaker of the House, John Boehner,

  • simply let the bill get on the floor for an up-or-down vote,

  • every congressman could vote their conscience --

  • the shutdown would end today.

  • The only thing that is keeping the government shut down;

  • the only thing preventing people from going back to work

  • and basic research starting back up,

  • and farmers and small business owners getting their loan --

  • the only thing that's preventing

  • all that from happening, right now, today,

  • in the next five minutes,

  • is that Speaker John Boehner

  • won't even let the bill get a yes-or-no vote,

  • because he doesn't want to anger the extremists in his party.

  • That's all.

  • That's what this whole thing is about.

  • We've heard a lot from congressional Republicans

  • in the past couple of days

  • saying they don't want this shutdown.

  • Well, there's a simple way to prove it.

  • Send the bill to the floor, let everybody vote -- it will pass.

  • Send me the bill; I will sign it.

  • The shutdown will be over and we can get back to the business

  • of governing and helping the American people.

  • (applause)

  • It could happen in the next half hour.

  • National parks, monuments,

  • offices would all reopen immediately.

  • Benefits and services would resume again.

  • Hundreds of thousands of dedicated public servants

  • who are worrying about whether they're going to be able

  • to pay the mortgage or pay the car note,

  • they'd start going back to work right away.

  • So my simple message today is: Call a vote.

  • Call a vote.

  • Audience: Call a vote!

  • (applause)

  • The President: Put it on the floor and let every individual member

  • of Congress make up their own minds.

  • And they can show the American people,

  • are you for a shutdown or not?

  • If you're not for a shutdown, you'll vote for the bill;

  • if you're for a shutdown, you won't vote for a bill.

  • We don't have to twist anybody's arms.

  • But that way, the American people will be clear

  • about who is responsible for the shutdown.

  • Or, alternatively, more hopefully,

  • they'd be clear that this is something that doesn't make

  • sense and we should go ahead and make sure that we're looking out

  • for the American people.

  • It should be that simple.

  • But as I said, the problem we've got

  • is that there's one faction of one party,

  • in one half of one branch of government

  • that so far has refused to allow that yes-or-no vote

  • unless they get some massive partisan concessions in exchange

  • for doing what they're supposed to be doing anyway,

  • in exchange for doing

  • what everybody else agrees is necessary.

  • And they won't agree to end the shutdown

  • until they get their way.

  • And you may think I'm exaggerating,

  • but just the other day, one tea party Republican

  • called the idea of a shutdown "wonderful."

  • Another said that a shutdown is "exactly what we wanted."

  • Well, they got exactly what they wanted.

  • Now they're trying to figure out how to get out of it.

  • Just yesterday, one House Republican said --

  • I'm quoting here, because I want to make sure people understand

  • I didn't make this up.

  • One House Republican said,

  • "We're not going to be disrespected.

  • We have to get something out of this.

  • And I don't know what that even is."

  • That was a quote.

  • "We're not going to be disrespected.

  • We have got to get something out of this.

  • And I don't know what that even is."

  • Think about that.

  • You have already gotten the opportunity

  • to serve the American people.

  • There is no higher honor than that.

  • (applause)

  • You've already gotten the opportunity

  • to help businesses like this one,

  • workers like these.

  • So the American people aren't in the mood to give you

  • a goodie bag to go with it.

  • What you get is our intelligence professionals

  • being back on the job.

  • What you get is our medical researchers back on the job.

  • (applause)

  • What you get are little kids back into Head Start.

  • (applause)

  • What you get are our national parks and monuments open again.

  • What you get is the economy not stalling,

  • but continuing to grow.

  • (applause)

  • What you get are workers continuing to be hired.

  • That's what you get.

  • That's what you should be asking for.

  • Take a vote, stop this farce, and end this shutdown right now.

  • (applause)

  • If you're being disrespected,

  • it's because of that attitude you got

  • that you deserve to get something for doing your job.

  • Everybody here just does their job, right?

  • If you're working here

  • and in the middle of the day you just stopped and said,

  • you know what, I want to get something,

  • but I don't know exactly what I'm going to get.

  • (laughter)

  • But I'm just going to stop working until I get something.

  • I'm going to shut down the whole plant until I get something.

  • Audience Member: You'd get fired.

  • The President: You'd get fired.

  • (applause)

  • Right?

  • Because the deal is you've already gotten hired.

  • You've got a job.

  • You're getting a paycheck.

  • And so you also are getting the pride of doing a good job

  • and contributing to a business and looking out

  • for your fellow workers.

  • That's what you're getting.

  • Well, it shouldn't be any different

  • for a member of Congress.

  • Now, unlike past shutdowns --

  • I want to make sure everybody understands this

  • because, again, sometimes the tendency is to say,

  • well, both sides are at fault.

  • This one has nothing to do with deficits or spending or budgets.

  • Our deficits are falling at the fastest pace in 60 years.

  • We've cut the deficits in half since I took office.

  • (applause)

  • And some of the things that the Republicans are asking for

  • right now would actually add to our deficits, seriously.

  • So this is not about spending.

  • And this isn't about fiscal responsibility.

  • This whole thing is about one thing:

  • the Republican obsession

  • with dismantling the Affordable Care Act

  • and denying affordable health insurance

  • to millions of Americans.

  • (applause)

  • That's all this has become about.

  • That seems to be the only thing

  • that unites the Republican Party these days.

  • Through this whole fight,

  • they've said the American people don't want Obamacare,

  • so we should shut down the government

  • to repeal it or delay it.

  • But here's the problem: The government is now shut down,

  • but the Affordable Care Act is still open for business.

  • (applause)

  • So they're not even accomplishing

  • what they say they want to accomplish.

  • And, by the way, in the first two days

  • since the new marketplaces --

  • basically big group plans that we've set up --

  • the first two days that they opened,

  • websites where you can compare and purchase

  • new affordable insurance plans

  • and maybe get tax credits to reduce your costs,

  • millions of Americans have made it clear

  • they do want health insurance.

  • (applause)

  • More than 6 million people visited the website

  • HealthCare.gov the day it opened.

  • Nearly 200,000 people picked up the phone

  • and called the call center.

  • In Kentucky alone -- this is a state where --

  • I didn't win Kentucky.

  • (laughter)

  • So I know they weren't doing it for me.

  • In Kentucky, nearly 11,000 people applied

  • for new insurance plans in the first two days --

  • just in one state, Kentucky.

  • And many Americans are finding out when they go on the website

  • that they'll save a lot of money

  • or get health insurance for the first time.

  • So I would think that if, in fact,

  • this was going to be such a disaster that the Republicans

  • say it's going to be, that it was going to be so unpopular,

  • they wouldn't have to shut down the government.

  • They could wait, nobody would show any interest,

  • there would be, like, two people on the website --

  • (laughter)

  • -- and everybody would then vote for candidates

  • who want to repeal it.

  • It's not as if Republicans haven't had a chance

  • to debate the health care law.

  • It passed the House of Representatives.

  • It passed the Senate.

  • The Supreme Court ruled it constitutional --

  • you remember all this.

  • Last November, voters rejected the presidential candidate

  • that ran on a platform to repeal it.

  • (applause)

  • So the Affordable Care Act has gone through

  • every single democratic process,

  • all three branches of government.

  • It's the law of the land.

  • It's here to stay.

  • I've said to Republicans, if there are specific things

  • you think can improve the law to make it even better for people

  • as opposed to just gutting it and leaving 25 million people

  • without health insurance,

  • I'm happy to talk to you about that.

  • But a Republican shutdown won't change the fact that millions

  • of people need health insurance, and that the Affordable Care Act

  • is being implemented.

  • The shutdown does not change that.

  • All the shutdown is doing is making it harder for ordinary

  • Americans to get by, and harder for businesses to create jobs

  • at a time when our economy is just starting

  • to gain traction again.

  • You've heard Republicans say that Obamacare

  • will hurt the economy,

  • but the economy has been growing and creating jobs.

  • The single-greatest threat to our economy

  • and to our businesses like this one

  • is not the Affordable Care Act,

  • it's the unwillingness of Republicans in Congress

  • to stop refighting a settled election,

  • or making the demands that have nothing to do with the budget.

  • They need to move on to the actual business of governing.

  • That's what will help the economy.

  • That's what will grow the economy.

  • That's what will put people back to work.

  • (applause)

  • And more than that, House Republicans need to stop

  • careening from one crisis to another in everything they do.

  • Have you noticed that?

  • Since they've taken over the House of Representatives,

  • we have one of these crises every three months.

  • Have you noticed?

  • And you keep on thinking, all right, well,

  • this is going to be the last one;

  • they're not going to do this again.

  • And then they do it again.

  • I know you're tired of it.

  • I'm tired of it.

  • It doesn't mean that they're wrong on every single issue.

  • I've said I'm happy to negotiate with you on anything.

  • I don't think any one party has a monopoly on wisdom.

  • But you don't negotiate by putting a gun

  • to the other person's head --

  • or, worse yet, by putting a gun to the American people's head

  • by threatening a shutdown.

  • And, by the way, even after Congress

  • reopens your government,

  • it's going to have to turn around very quickly

  • and do something else --

  • and that's pay America's bills.

  • I want to spend a little time on this.

  • It's something called raising the debt ceiling.

  • And it's got a lousy name,

  • so a lot of people end up thinking,

  • I don't know, I don't think we should raise our debt ceiling,

  • because it sounds like we're raising our debt.

  • But that's not what this is about.

  • It doesn't cost taxpayers a single dime.

  • It doesn't grow our deficits by a single dime.

  • It doesn't allow anybody to spend any new money whatsoever.

  • So it's not something that raises our debt.

  • What it does is allow the U.S. Treasury,

  • the U.S. government to pay the bills

  • that Congress has already racked up.

  • I want you to think about this.

  • If you go to a restaurant, you order a meal, you eat it.

  • Maybe you have some wine.

  • Maybe you have two glasses of wine -- great meal.

  • And then you look at the tab -- it's pretty expensive --

  • and you decide I'm not going to pay the bill.

  • But you're not saving money.

  • You're not being frugal.

  • You're just a deadbeat, right?

  • (laughter)

  • If you buy a house and you decide,

  • this month I'd rather go on vacation somewhere

  • so I'm not going to pay my mortgage,

  • you didn't just save yourself some money.

  • You're just going to get foreclosed on.

  • So you don't save money by not paying your bills.

  • You don't reduce your debt by not paying your bills.

  • All you're doing is making yourself unreliable

  • and hurting your credit rating.

  • And you'll start getting those phone calls

  • and those notices in the mail.

  • And the next time you try to borrow,

  • somebody is going to say, uh-uh,

  • because you don't pay your bills, you're a deadbeat.

  • Well, the same is true for countries.

  • The only thing that the debt ceiling does

  • is to let the U.S. Treasury pay

  • for what Congress has already bought.

  • That's why it's something that has been routine.

  • Traditionally, it's not a big deal.

  • Congress has raised it 45 times since Ronald Reagan took office.

  • This is just kind of a routine part

  • of keeping the government running.

  • The last time the House Republicans flirted

  • with not raising the debt ceiling, back in 2011 --

  • some of you remember this --

  • our economy took a bad hit.

  • Our country's credit rating was downgraded for the first time,

  • just like you'd be downgraded if you didn't pay your mortgage.

  • This time, they are threatening to actually force

  • the United States to default on its obligations

  • for the very first time in history.

  • Now, you'll hear John Boehner and Mitch McConnell

  • and these other Republicans say, we don't want to default.

  • But everybody knows --

  • it's written about in all the papers --

  • that their basic theory is, okay,

  • if the shutdown doesn't work, then we are going to try to get

  • some extra concessions out of the President.

  • We'll put like a long laundry list,

  • all the things that we want that we can't get passed on our own.

  • And if we don't get it, we'll tell them we don't --

  • we won't vote to pay the country's bills.

  • We'll let the country default.

  • I'm not just making this up.

  • I mean, it's common knowledge.

  • Every reporter here knows it.

  • And I want you to understand the consequences of this.

  • As reckless as a government shutdown is,

  • as many people as are being hurt by a government shutdown,

  • an economic shutdown that results from default

  • would be dramatically worse.

  • In a government shutdown,

  • Social Security checks still go out on time.

  • In an economic shutdown,

  • if we don't raise the debt ceiling,

  • they don't go out on time.

  • In a government shutdown,

  • disability benefits still arrive on time.

  • In an economic shutdown, they don't.

  • In a government shutdown, millions of Americans --

  • not just federal workers --

  • everybody faces real economic hardship.

  • In an economic shutdown,

  • falling pensions and home values and rising interest rates

  • on things like mortgages and student loans --

  • all those things risk putting us back into a bad recession,

  • which will affect this company

  • and those workers and all of you.

  • That's not my analysis.

  • That's -- every economist out there is saying the same thing.

  • We've never done it before.

  • And the United States is the center of the world economy.

  • So if we screw up, everybody gets screwed up.

  • The whole world will have problems,

  • which is why generally nobody has ever thought

  • to actually threaten not to pay our bills.

  • It would be the height of irresponsibility.

  • And that's why I've said this before --

  • I'm going to repeat it:

  • There will be no negotiations over this.

  • (applause)

  • The American people are not pawns in some political game.

  • You don't get to demand some ransom in exchange

  • for keeping the government running.

  • You don't get to demand ransom in exchange

  • for keeping the economy running.

  • You don't get to demand ransom for doing your most basic job.

  • And the sooner that the Republicans in Congress

  • heed the warnings not just of me

  • or Democrats like Chris and John,

  • but heed the warnings of the Chamber of Commerce, and CEOs,

  • and economists, and a whole lot of Republicans

  • outside of Congress --

  • they're all saying, do not do this.

  • They're all saying to Congress, do your job;

  • and the sooner you do your job, the less damage you'll do

  • to our economy and to businesses like this one.

  • So pass a budget, end the government shutdown.

  • Pay our bills.

  • Prevent an economic shutdown.

  • Just vote and end this shutdown.

  • And you should do it today so we can get back

  • to growing this economy,

  • creating jobs and strengthening our middle class.

  • (applause)

  • Let me close just by sharing a story I heard

  • as I was getting ready to come here today.

  • Many of you already know it.

  • Two years ago, a mulch factory

  • next to M. Luis's main equipment storage facility caught fire,

  • and most of the company's equipment was destroyed,

  • causing millions of dollars in damage.

  • But even while the fire was still burning,

  • dozens of employees rushed over to the facility

  • and tried to save as much as they could --

  • some of you were probably there.

  • And when they finished cutting fire lines

  • and spraying down the perimeter of their own property,

  • they went over to help their neighbors.

  • And afterwards, even though all the employees

  • here at M. Luis are on salary,

  • even though the company had just taken a big financial hit,

  • Cidalia and Natalia paid everyone overtime,

  • and along with each check they included a personalized note

  • saying just how much they had appreciated

  • the efforts of the workers.

  • And Cidalia said, everybody says the biggest asset

  • to a business is employees.

  • Some people mean it, some people don't --

  • we actually do.

  • So this company right here is full of folks

  • who do right by each other.

  • They don't try to see if they can work every angle.

  • They don't lie about each other.

  • They don't try to undermine each other.

  • They understand they're supposed to be on the same team.

  • You pitch in, you look out for one another.

  • When somebody gets knocked down, you help them back up.

  • You don't ask what can you get out of this,

  • because you know that success doesn't depend on one of you,

  • it depends on all of you working together.

  • Well, America is no different.

  • I see that same spirit in so many cities and towns

  • that I visit all across the country.

  • It is alive and well all across the country.

  • It's alive and well in this community where restaurants

  • and businesses are rallying around their regulars,

  • and they're looking out for all the dedicated public servants

  • who have been furloughed.

  • You've been reading stories about restaurants

  • who are saying, you know what,

  • while you're on furlough, come on,

  • we'll give you a burger, we'll give you a meal,

  • we'll help you out.

  • That's the American ideal.

  • It says, we're working together, looking out for one another,

  • meeting our responsibilities, doing our jobs,

  • thinking about future generations.

  • And that's why I believe, ultimately,

  • reason and common sense will prevail.

  • That spirit at some point will infiltrate Washington as well.

  • Because I think the American people

  • are so good and so decent,

  • they're going to get better behavior

  • from their government than this.

  • And we'll once again make sure this is a country

  • where you can make it if you try.

  • So thank you, everybody.

  • God bless you.

  • God bless the United States of America.

  • (applause)

The President: Hello, everybody!

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