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Jasmine Crockett: “The Senate is like, yeah, so we've been shut down during the…”

Featuring: Jasmine Crockett, Democratic | U.S. House, Texas, District 30

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Published | Video Starts at 06:31

It's like putting it on layaway. Like, hold on. Wait a minute. We need a few extra days, and then we will finish our homework. Right? Well, the thing is, The Senate is like, yeah, so we've been shut down during the entire time that we were supposed to try to get kind of the real bills passed, which are the appropriations bills. And so I don't think that we'll get it done. Even if we pass the Continuum resolution to the date that we said we felt like we could get our homework done by. (06:31–06:43)

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Asserts that the Senate has been inactive during the period meant for passing appropriations bills.

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