October 6, 2025 Click here to watch the full interview. Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) yesterday joined MSNBC’s The Weekend with Jonathan Capehart, Eugene Daniels, and Jacqueline Alemany to highlight the stakes of the Republican shutdown and the imminent health care crisis they are creating. Below are excerpts of the interview. “…Energy costs have gone up, food prices have gone up, rent has gone up, and we’re on the brink of health care costs going up. People are going to have to make very difficult decisions. Democrats, we’re saying, number one, the government should be open, and we should be doing our job, and number two, we need to

October 2, 2025 Washington, DC – U.S. Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) today released a statement on the Trump administration’s announcement that it is illegally withholding funds from critical projects in Delaware. These funds were already appropriated by Congress. “OMB Director Russ Vought’s announcement that projects in Delaware are being terminated by the Department of Energy during the shutdown is a blatant attempt by the Trump administration to illegally withhold funds from states primarily led by Democrats. This has the potential to severely harm our economy by eliminating good-paying energy jobs and raising energy costs for the American people. “No Delawareans, or any Americans for that matter,

“If you’re serious, you would be listening to the people and you would not be canceling out their health care. You would not be doing memes. This is a serious moment, and what we need is for them to come to the table, seriously, on behalf of the American people.” October 1, 2025 Click here to watch the full interview. Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) today joined MSNBC’s Ana Cabrera Reports to call out Republicans for skipping town instead of working to avoid a shutdown. Last night, just before the Republican shutdown began, Blunt Rochester released a statement decrying Republicans’ refusal to engage in good faith, bipartisan negotiations with