James Lankford: “The House is not even here, so we can't get to a resolution…”

“The problem with this, Larry, is that's got to be done by Friday at midnight. The House is not even here, so we can't get to a resolution with the Senate. So what the Senate Democrats have done is created this whole stir moment to be able to shut down funding on the most of the government spending at this point …” (04:46–04:49)

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