WASHINGTON, D.C. — Indiana Republican Sen. Todd Young is calling the shutdown of the federal government a “manufactured crisis” created by the Democrats.

The shutdown reached the fourth day on Saturday. Senate Democrats blocked a fourth attempt from the GOP to get back to work on Friday.

Republicans have pushed to pass a budget that would keep the government funded at current levels until mid-November. Democrats are arguing for Congress to renew Affordable Care Act subsidies that expire at the end of the year. Republicans also claim that Democratic lawmakers are wanting illegal immigrants to get health care.

“What the Democrats are effectively asking us to do is to undo some common sense changes that we made to the ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ to our health care in this country,” Sen. Young

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