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James Lankford: “Forty days ago, John Thune and the President stepped out and…”

Featuring: James Lankford, Republican | U.S. Senate, Oklahoma

Lankford Joins Larry Kudlow on the Longest, Most Pointless Democrat Shutdown

Published November 10, 2025 | Video Starts at 01:59

I hate to be overly partisan, but. But this, I call it Shumerian. This is Sumerian catastrophe. Worst thing I've ever seen. Worst thing I've ever seen. Forty days ago, John Thune and the President stepped out and said we will talk about health care as soon as the Government's open. If you want to have a vote on it, we're offer you a vote. 40 days ago, we said we wanted to be able to get on appropriation bills 40 days ago. (01:59–02:05)

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Asserts that John Thune and the President promised to discuss health care once the government reopens.

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“Democrats are demanding that they get to vote on each and every step [of the process to reopen the government].”
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“The far left of their party is going to make them vote 7 or 8 times to be able to do it.”
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“We can send it over to the House by late tonight. The House can take it up in probably the next 36 to 48 hours.”
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“We're actually passing three appropriation bills, which we said we want to do all along.”
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“We're saying we'll have some kind of health care votes in December on that.”
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