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John Fetterman: “We shut the entire government down for 44 days and plunged…”

Featuring: John Fetterman, Democratic | U.S. Senate Pennsylvania

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Senator John Fetterman | Club Random with Bill Maher

Published | Video Starts at 1:01:48

I mean he, he did that stand about, I think it was like abortion in parts of the military for some weird thing. And it jammed up, you know, promotions and it was punishing innocent people. And We shut the entire government down for 44 days and plunged people into chaos. SNAP. 42 million Americans depend on SNAP. All of that stuff influx, you know, well, we're doing this for health care. There was no health care. There was no developments. (1:01:48–1:01:56)

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