James Lankford: “We finally got it done through reconciliation.”

“Republicans gained anything after the shutdown. And, you know, it's done finally. I don't know. I don't know what the point was. But you finally got it done through reconciliation, right, Senator? We finally got it done through reconciliation. It's like a train track that has a side track on it where you can do the normal budget process and just run it normally or you can do the sidetrack.” (00:36–00:39)

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