Lee Zeldin

Officials are saying it'll be months before the road can be rebuilt.

When disaster struck, others underestimated us, but I never did.

Reopen and ready for travelers just 12 days after a devastating collapse.

We cut through the red tape to get I-95 rebuilt in record time.

We did it using materials from a Pennsylvania business and with the muscle and know-how of Pennsylvania union workers.

But it wasn't just there.

We've gotten shit done all across our commonwealth.

Well, one, as you saw with Congresswoman Clark over the course of these last couple of days, talking about how they acknowledge congressional Democrats that this is causing American families to suffer.

And she refers to it as leverage that needs to be used in this negotiation.

So there is an acknowledgment that this does cause suffering as time goes by and, you know, snap payments start to be missed, paychecks start to be missed.

I think more Americans will be feeling it in the days and the weeks to come.

The other thing, too, is that this is a shutdown where the Republicans keep voting to have the government open and it's the Democrats.

Democrats voting no.

I think if it was reversed, some of these outlets like New York Times, it might be above the fold front page every single day that the Democrats are having votes to have the government open and the Republicans would be voting no.

So I think if the shoe was on the other foot, we'd see different media coverage.

For us here at the EPA, we operate off of a lot of carryover funding.

It's not necessarily a fiscal year that ends on September 30th.

We have funding that multiple years.

We had a furlough that kicked in over 4,000 people this past Monday.

As we move forward in coming weeks, that will go up.