Harriet Hageman: “The $1.5 trillion that the Democrats are demanding makes no…”

“I said from the very beginning, the first week of this shutdown, we had a conference and I said to my fellow Republicans in the House of Representatives, I said, I smell a skunk. I said, The $1.5 trillion that the Democrats are demanding makes no sense at all. They know that we're not going to vote to spend $1.5 trillion by November 21 on all of these programs that we just asked through the one big beautiful bill.” (03:40–03:47)

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