John Barrasso: “Democrats want a ransom payment of over $1 trillion to keep…”

“It's far from a clean extension of current funding. In fact, it's a Trojan horse. A Trojan horse packed with reckless and radical liberal fantasies. It's not serious and the Democrats know it. The Democrats want a ransom payment of over $1 trillion to keep the government open for just four weeks. So let's take a look at it. There's more than a trillion dollars in more spending in what the Democrats are proposing.” (01:17–01:20)

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