Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said Thursday that Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) should be more worried about keeping the government open than he is about his speakership.
Reid said Boehner knows a clean funding bill could pass the House with Republican and Democratic votes, but he has not taken it up because he is worried about the fallout from the conservative wing of his party.
“So yes, I think that the Speaker has to be more concerned about our country than he is about his job,” Reid said in a CNN interview.
Other members of the Democratic Senate leadership, including Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), have charged that Boehner's leadership position is in danger from conservatives.
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