James Lankford: “We were shut down 76 days because my Democratic colleagues…”

“We stay here until the work is done. But let me give an example of what that would look like just in this shutdown, this particular shutdown with the Homeland Security. We were shut down 76 days because my Democratic colleagues did not want to fund ICE or border protection. So we had a 76 day shutdown. During that 76 day time period, the Senate was in session 35 of those days. Less than half 76 days.” (03:48–03:57)

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