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John Thune: “Democrats negotiated a deal to fund Department of Homeland…”

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

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Leader Thune Joins Sandra Smith on Fox News

Published | Video Starts at 00:17

So what can you tell us about, Mr. Leader, about whether or not we're going to see another shutdown, at least a DHS shutdown by Valentine's Day? That's really up to the Democrats negotiated a deal to fund Department of Homeland Security and then walked away from it. and blew up the package of appropriation bills that we had carefully put together. And as I said, they were a part of that conversation, that discussion and were supposed to support it. (00:17–00:30)

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Asserts that Democrats initially agreed to a DHS funding deal but later abandoned it.

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