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John Thune: “Democrats are going to have an opportunity later today to…”

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

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Thune on DHS Funding: the Ball Is in Democrats' Court

Published | Video Starts at 07:17

… in that bill, to include the Federal Emergency Management Agency, tsa, Coast Guard, Cyber Security, those are all parts of this. It's pretty important stuff, Mr. President, I would argue Democrats are going to have an opportunity later today to vote not only on the bill as passed by The House, which they negotiated and then walked away from. which funds, all these things I just mentioned, we will have that vote. And they will also have an opportunity to, to allow for an extension for additional time, time which we all knew was going to be necessary to actually reach a final deal. (07:17–07:28)

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Asserts that Democrats negotiated a bill passed by the House and then walked away from it.

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