James Lankford: “14 times we voted to reopen the government.”

“Yeah, this is the spin. Literally, this is the painful spin that people across the country is like, I'm so sick of the politics. And the spin, just fix the problem is 14 times we voted to reopen the government. Two weeks ago, we brought a bill that would fully fund SNAP for the entire year. Last week, we brought a bill that would just pay our federal employees.” (09:00–09:04)

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