John Cornyn: “Senator Schumer has made it clear that it was his plan all…”

“But the truth is that Senate Democrats care less about federal workers and the rest of the country than they do about appeasing the radical base. Senator Schumer has made it clear that it was his plan all along to make the American people pay the price in order to achieve his political goals. When he said, quote, we've thought about this long in advance. So this wasn't an accident. This wasn't sort of a surprising occurrence.” (17:49–18:00)

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