All that Republicans are proposing is to continue to fund the government for the next seven weeks. This is going to allow us to continue the appropriations process and keep the government open during that time. Senator Schumer himself said last year that passing a clean CR will avert a harmful and unnecessary shutdown. Now he wants to cause a harmful and unnecessary shutdown. At that time, he said passing a clean cross gives appropriators time to finish drafting all 12 bills. (05:08–05:16)
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