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Chris Murphy: “I have no moral obligation to vote for a budget that funds…”

Featuring: Chris Murphy, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Connecticut

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Trump's Shutdown: Can The Democrats Save Healthcare? w/ Sen. Chris Murphy

Published | Video Starts at 23:12

So again, I think it's part of this big broader plan. And again, it just raises the stakes on this budget fight because yeah, I want to get people's health care saved, but I have no moral obligation to vote for a budget that funds the destruction of our democracy. that funds those operations at the Department of Defense, at the Department of Revenue, at the Internal Revenue Service. (23:12–23:31)

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Asserts that the current budget funds activities harmful to democracy.

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