John McGuire

10/16/2025 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 10/16/2025 09:23

Virginia’s Congressional Republicans Call for Immediate End to Government Shutdown in New Op-ed

VIRGINIA - Today, Representatives Ben Cline (VA-06), Morgan Griffith (VA-09), John McGuire (VA-05), Jen Kiggans (VA-02), and Rob Wittman (VA-01) joined together in an op-ed published in The Hillto highlight the serious impacts being felt across Virginia and call on Senate Democrats to end the government shutdown.

Read the full piece here.

KEY EXCERPTS:

  • "Every single Republican member of Virginia's House delegation voted to fund the government, keep it open, and ensure that essential services for our constituents continued without interruption. We passed a clean, short-term continuing resolution - the same kind of measure that has been used routinely with bipartisan support for years."
  • "When the government shuts down, Virginia doesn't just read about it - we live it. Nearly 150,000 federal employees call Virginia home. We host the Pentagon, Langley Air Force Base, the Navy's Atlantic fleet, and a dense network of defense contractors and federal agencies."
  • "We have heard for years that shutdowns are dangerous, disruptive, and damaging to the economy, particularly here in the Commonwealth. But when the opportunity came to prevent one, Senate Democrats chose to manufacture a crisis instead, hoping they could use it as a tool to advance a political agenda."

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