During a 20-minute meeting Friday with the Weber County Commission, Utah Sen. Mitt Romney offered few solutions for ending the ongoing government shutdown, placing that responsibility squarely with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and President Donald Trump.
He recently joined a bipartisan group of Republican and Democratic Senators urging those leaders to support a three-week stopgap bill that would fully reopen the federal government pending further discussion on border wall funding, he said.
“And the White House and the speaker’s office came back and said nope,” he said. “It’s between us. Not you guys. It’s between the speaker and the president and you guys just keep your nose out of it.