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John Thune: “Democrats 43 day government shutdown in the fall was over a…”

Featuring: John Thune, Republican | Senate Majority Leader, South Dakota

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Thune on Republicans' Plan to Fund ICE and Border Patrol Through Reconciliation

Published | Video Starts at 05:14

And to prevent Democrats from voting to defund law enforcement once again in September, we're going to fund border security and immigration enforcement for the next three years. Mr. President, if you want to see a partisan circus look no further than Democrats 43 day government shutdown in the fall was over a clean non-partisan funding bill. non partisan funding bill and Democrat shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security happened because they couldn't take yes for an answer. (05:14–05:30)

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