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The shutdown we are seeing now is completely avoidable, decisions made during the drought deprived salmon of the water that they need to survive. By doing so, they took away our livelihood. – John McManus	Found on CNN 1 year ago
You may need a shutdown for a better performance! – Ahmad F. Hedayat	added by anonymous 1 year ago
Congress has the power to adopt the agreement and prevent a shutdown, it should set aside politics and partisan division and deliver for the American people. – President Biden	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
In the face of the existential threats like climate change and MAGA extremism, House and Senate leadership has a greater responsibility than ever to avoid risking a government shutdown by jamming divisive policy riders into a must-pass continuing resolution, permitting reform hurts already-overburdened communities, puts polluters on an even faster track, and divides the caucus. – Natural Resources	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Variants are going to come, if every variant that comes, we move into shutdown thoughts, we move into panicking, we're not going to function as a city. – Eric Adams	Found on CNN 1 year ago
People say The President doesn't control gas prices with a magic lever, but you can trace back to the executive order to shut down that pipeline, it does have an effect, and I think it's more of just a shutdown for image rather than looking at the actual effects of things. – Peter Slavey	Found on CNN 1 year ago
SWIFT is an European company, an association of many participating countries. To make a decision on disconnection, a united decision of all participating countries is needed. The decisions of the United States and Great Britain are definitely not enough, i'm not sure that other countries, especially those whose share of trade with Russia is large in balance, will support the shutdown. – Nikolai Zhuravlev	Found on CNN 2 years ago
You do another shutdown, there's going to be actual credible resistance, not the kind of hashtag resistance we saw when Trump was elected. This will be for real. – Greg Gutfeld	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I wasn't expecting that tonight, my goal was to just play a good shutdown game, and I think I did a pretty good job of that. – Dysin Mayo	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Those kids there at Abbey Gate, they don’t get a choice to resign,” Milley said, referring to the 13 American service members who died during the evacuation from Kabul in late August when an ISIS-K suicide bomber detonated an explosive vest. “They can't resign so I'm not going to resign. There's no way.” MOST READ House Appropriations Chair Rosa DeLauro fields questions about the politics of the federal debt in front of the House Rules Committee. Democrats back off debt fight to stop shutdown Top generals contradict Biden, say they urged him not to withdraw from Afghanistan Biden opposes changing Senate rules to raise debt limit ‘As adults, we failed’: New Jersey’s school bus driver shortage grows ‘dire’ Progressives dig in as Pelosi tries to save key vote – Mark Milley	added by MoWali 2 years ago
There were so many candidates... we just wanted to make sure [ there wasn't cheating ], people tried to cheat but we caught a lot of them. But because of the internet shutdown, the [ test ] paper was not leaked out. – Dinesh Kumar Yadav	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I don’t think a lot of restaurants can handle another shutdown. – Yuka Ioroi	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
What we anticipate is the longer students have been out, the longer they've been faced with virtual instruction, the more severe the impact is likely to be, the long-term impact of this pandemic shutdown is going to be much more than one year. Students across all grade levels have experienced learning loss. And it's not just the learning loss for this current year. Many of them have lost ground developmentally, particularly younger kids. – Sandy Addis	Found on CNN 2 years ago
He’s in that shutdown phase where they’re just going to cool everything down for a while. – Brian Snitker	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I was admitted in the hospital at the end of March. Nobody really quite knew what coronavirus was at that point, they were starting to shut everything down. And they kept thinking it was only going to be a two-week shutdown and it turned out to be a year shutdown. – Jeanine Luna	Found on CNN 2 years ago
All large cruise ships burn huge volumes of the dirtiest, cheapest fuel available, cruise ship companies could have used the COVID shutdown to address their impacts on public health and the environment. Instead, they scrapped a few of their oldest ships and raised cash to stay alive. – Jim Ace of environmental group	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
We deeply regret the impact the shutdown has on the people in Myanmar. – Telenor ASA	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
If these basic measures continue to be ignored, the consequences will be more dire. The shutdown won't end at the end of January and we will have to look at more extreme measures. – Doug Ford	Found on CNN 3 years ago
There's still time for an agreement to be reached among lawmakers to pass the funding bill in time to avert a shutdown, but it's unclear for now exactly how the standoff will play out. If it were to happen, a shutdown would likely be brief and over the weekend when many government operations are not open. In a Senate floor speech, Paul elaborated on his concerns, saying of Liz Cheney and the amendment in question. – Liz Cheney	Found on CNN 3 years ago
It is not acceptable that we have up to 500 deaths every day, we need a tough shutdown now to make a difference. – Karl Lauterbach	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
I am not going to shut down the economy, period. I'm going to shut down the virus. That's what I'm going to shut down, no national shutdown, because every region, every area, every community can be different. And so there's no circumstance which I can see that would require total national shutdown. – Biden TransitionBiden	Found on CNN 3 years ago
No national shutdown, because every region, every area, every community can be different. And so there's no circumstance which I can see that would require total national shutdown. – Biden TransitionBiden	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Given sports shutdown in March because of COVID-19, this will be the first season that NFL players try to get ready on the field after conducting minicamps virtually during the offseason. We often say physical distance and football dont go together, pretty impossible to keep 6 feet apart on the field, so that causes you to look for other innovations which could possibly be a flag bearer, and we think this falls into that category. – Allen Sills	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Rather than think in terms of reverting back down to a complete shutdown, I would think we need to get the states pausing in their opening process. – Anthony Fauci	Found on CNN 3 years ago

The shutdown we are seeing now is completely avoidable, decisions made during the drought deprived salmon of the water that they need to survive. By doing so, they took away our livelihood.

– John McManus

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You may need a shutdown for a better performance!

– Ahmad F. Hedayat

added by anonymous
1 year ago

Congress has the power to adopt the agreement and prevent a shutdown, it should set aside politics and partisan division and deliver for the American people.

– President Biden

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

In the face of the existential threats like climate change and MAGA extremism, House and Senate leadership has a greater responsibility than ever to avoid risking a government shutdown by jamming divisive policy riders into a must-pass continuing resolution, permitting reform hurts already-overburdened communities, puts polluters on an even faster track, and divides the caucus.

– Natural Resources

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Variants are going to come, if every variant that comes, we move into shutdown thoughts, we move into panicking, we're not going to function as a city.

– Eric Adams

Found on CNN
1 year ago

People say The President doesn't control gas prices with a magic lever, but you can trace back to the executive order to shut down that pipeline, it does have an effect, and I think it's more of just a shutdown for image rather than looking at the actual effects of things.

– Peter Slavey

Found on CNN
1 year ago

SWIFT is an European company, an association of many participating countries. To make a decision on disconnection, a united decision of all participating countries is needed. The decisions of the United States and Great Britain are definitely not enough, i'm not sure that other countries, especially those whose share of trade with Russia is large in balance, will support the shutdown.

– Nikolai Zhuravlev

Found on CNN
2 years ago

You do another shutdown, there's going to be actual credible resistance, not the kind of hashtag resistance we saw when Trump was elected. This will be for real.

– Greg Gutfeld

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I wasn't expecting that tonight, my goal was to just play a good shutdown game, and I think I did a pretty good job of that.

– Dysin Mayo

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Those kids there at Abbey Gate, they don’t get a choice to resign,” Milley said, referring to the 13 American service members who died during the evacuation from Kabul in late August when an ISIS-K suicide bomber detonated an explosive vest. “They can't resign so I'm not going to resign. There's no way.” MOST READ House Appropriations Chair Rosa DeLauro fields questions about the politics of the federal debt in front of the House Rules Committee. Democrats back off debt fight to stop shutdown Top generals contradict Biden, say they urged him not to withdraw from Afghanistan Biden opposes changing Senate rules to raise debt limit ‘As adults, we failed’: New Jersey’s school bus driver shortage grows ‘dire’ Progressives dig in as Pelosi tries to save key vote

– Mark Milley

added by MoWali
2 years ago

There were so many candidates... we just wanted to make sure [ there wasn't cheating ], people tried to cheat but we caught a lot of them. But because of the internet shutdown, the [ test ] paper was not leaked out.

– Dinesh Kumar Yadav

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I don’t think a lot of restaurants can handle another shutdown.

– Yuka Ioroi

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

What we anticipate is the longer students have been out, the longer they've been faced with virtual instruction, the more severe the impact is likely to be, the long-term impact of this pandemic shutdown is going to be much more than one year. Students across all grade levels have experienced learning loss. And it's not just the learning loss for this current year. Many of them have lost ground developmentally, particularly younger kids.

– Sandy Addis

Found on CNN
2 years ago

He’s in that shutdown phase where they’re just going to cool everything down for a while.

– Brian Snitker

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I was admitted in the hospital at the end of March. Nobody really quite knew what coronavirus was at that point, they were starting to shut everything down. And they kept thinking it was only going to be a two-week shutdown and it turned out to be a year shutdown.

– Jeanine Luna

Found on CNN
2 years ago

All large cruise ships burn huge volumes of the dirtiest, cheapest fuel available, cruise ship companies could have used the COVID shutdown to address their impacts on public health and the environment. Instead, they scrapped a few of their oldest ships and raised cash to stay alive.

– Jim Ace of environmental group

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

We deeply regret the impact the shutdown has on the people in Myanmar.

– Telenor ASA

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

If these basic measures continue to be ignored, the consequences will be more dire. The shutdown won't end at the end of January and we will have to look at more extreme measures.

– Doug Ford

Found on CNN
3 years ago

There's still time for an agreement to be reached among lawmakers to pass the funding bill in time to avert a shutdown, but it's unclear for now exactly how the standoff will play out. If it were to happen, a shutdown would likely be brief and over the weekend when many government operations are not open. In a Senate floor speech, Paul elaborated on his concerns, saying of Liz Cheney and the amendment in question.

– Liz Cheney

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It is not acceptable that we have up to 500 deaths every day, we need a tough shutdown now to make a difference.

– Karl Lauterbach

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

I am not going to shut down the economy, period. I'm going to shut down the virus. That's what I'm going to shut down, no national shutdown, because every region, every area, every community can be different. And so there's no circumstance which I can see that would require total national shutdown.

– Biden TransitionBiden

Found on CNN
3 years ago

No national shutdown, because every region, every area, every community can be different. And so there's no circumstance which I can see that would require total national shutdown.

– Biden TransitionBiden

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Given sports shutdown in March because of COVID-19, this will be the first season that NFL players try to get ready on the field after conducting minicamps virtually during the offseason. We often say physical distance and football dont go together, pretty impossible to keep 6 feet apart on the field, so that causes you to look for other innovations which could possibly be a flag bearer, and we think this falls into that category.

– Allen Sills

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Rather than think in terms of reverting back down to a complete shutdown, I would think we need to get the states pausing in their opening process.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN
3 years ago

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