I think really that, you know, the truth of the matter for the Republicans is we wanted to keep the government open all the time and stop all this suffering that was going on. The Democrats voted 13 times during the Biden administration to do exactly what the Republicans wanted to do last night. which was to keep the government open, and they refused to do it last night. And what we saw in the last week is Democrats admitting that they were using the shutdown as political leverage. (01:09–01:17)
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Asserts that Democrats previously voted in favor of Republican proposals to keep the government open.
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