James Lankford: “Democrats' initial proposal was for $1.5 trillion in new…”

“They handed it to Chuck Schumer, and Senator Schumer said, nope, it's not time to be able to end this yet. And so we are waiting on the moment that he actually puts a proposal on the table. Their Democrats' initial proposal was for $1.5 trillion in new Obamacare funding and climate change initiatives. All kinds of things that they knew no one would move on. That actually was in October. They've not actually done another proposal then. Since then, they've just said, no, we're keeping it closed.” (00:39–00:47)

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