But it is frustrating for me. It's frustrating for our constituents, for our federal employees, for our military, for TSA and the air traffic controllers. This is absurd. We have voted. The Republicans have voted in the House and in the Senate repeatedly to fund the government at exactly the same levels as we were funding under Joe Biden. And this makes no sense other than the fact that the Democrats are holding the American public hostage to pursue health insurance for illegal aliens, refunding us and refunding NPR and PBS to the tune of $500 million. (01:42–01:52)
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Asserts that Republicans have voted to fund the government at the same levels as under President Biden.
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