“It’s well past time for Democratic leadership in Congress to work with Republicans and the President to reopen the government,” Nevada Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo said in a press statement issued by his office Friday afternoon.

The press release was accompanied by a letter from Lombardo to Nevada Democratic U.S. Senator Jacky Rosen, calling on her to “work with your colleagues to reopen the federal government.”

“I’m confident that through cooperation and goodwill, we can restore stability and move forward together,” said Lombardo’s letter.

A few minutes after Lombardo’s statement and letter were issued to the press, Rosen responded with a statement of her own.

“I want this government shutdown to end,” Rosen said, “which is why I urge Governor Lombardo to push Donald Trump and his own party in Washington to work in a bipartisan way to reopen the government and prevent a massive spike in health care costs for Nevadans.”

Lombardo’s letter also praised Nevada Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, one of only two Democratic senators, along with one independent who caucuses with the Democrats, who have been voting for a Republican stopgap spending bill that would end the shutdown.

Rosen, like the overwhelming majority of Cortez Masto’s Democratic colleagues in both the Senate and the U.S. House, voted against the Republican spending bill because it failed to restore Affordable Care Act subsidies that congressional Republicans and the Trump administration curtailed earlier this year. Health insurance premiums are projected to increase substantially if the Republican action is not reversed.

Democrats have repeatedly called on Republicans to meet with them to negotiate over the insurance issue, but Republican congressional leaders, taking their cue from Trump, have refused unless Democrats pass the Republican funding bill first.

The Trump administration has established a pattern of acting unilaterally without congressional approval, and also of cancelling federal funding that had been approved by Congress, even though the Constitution specifies that Congress, not the executive branch, controls federal spending.

In a nod to the administration’s practices and trustworthiness, or lack thereof, earlier this month Rosen said it would be “naive” to trust Trump to negotiate if Democrats were to simply surrender in the shutdown standoff.