Well, it's really up to Democrats who refuse to conduct the Senate's business while we, there are many important things for us to be attending to. But now for 21, I guess going on 22 days, they've simply been uncooperative. This used to be fairly routine to pass a short term stopgap spending bill to allow us to complete our work before the end of the year. But I must say this is completely unnecessary. But I think this is more, more design field keys their, their base than it is to anything else because nothing else really makes sense. (00:27–00:36)
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