Representative Mike Simpson

The Simpson Standard

October 26th, 2025

Dear [salutation],

This week, I joined Speaker Mike Johnson for his press conference alongside House Republican Leadership to discuss the government shutdown's impacts on America's national parks.

We are nearly one month into this shutdown. As a reminder, the House did its job on September 19th. We passed a clean bill to keep the government open. Democrats have voted repeatedly to keep the government shut down to give taxpayer-funded handouts to illegal immigrants. The vote record says it all.

Schumer Shutdown Impacts on America's National Parks

I joined Speaker Mike Johnson this week to discuss the government shutdown's impacts on America’s national parks. Americans remember the 2013 shutdown, when the Obama administration's policies locked down national parks and made the shutdown as painful as possible. They even closed the open-air, 24/7 WWII Memorial — turning away veterans.

I applaud the Trump administration’s efforts to do the opposite and mitigate these negative impacts. But this is not sustainable, and DC Liberals should end the blocking of this government funding measure. You can watch my full remarks here or watch the full press conference here.