John Thune: “Democrats opted to go through a 43-day government shutdown.”

“And this is a vote as you all know, we could have had weeks ago. It's been on offer now before we had Democrats opted to go through a 43-day government shutdown. But that's what the Democrats opted to do. And so at the end of the 43 days now we are going to get, we're going to have a vote on …” (02:06–02:17)

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