James Lankford: “I always withhold my pay anyway during a government…”

“But it doesn't solve the problem on a long term. That just means TSA workers are not paid and also senators are not paid. By the way, I always withhold my pay anyway during a government shutdown. So I'm not getting paid paid anyway during that time period. The real issue is what I'm trying to do is how to stop government shutdowns entirely, to say we don't have them at all.” (01:27–01:31)

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