John Thune: “If [the shutdown] was really what this is about, the…”

“Mr. President, Democrats claim that this shutdown is about addressing the expiring Obamacare Covid subsidies, but that's not really what this is about. If [the shutdown] was really what this is about, the Democrats would be voting to reopen the government so that we could actually engage in a serious discussion about rising health care costs and how Obamacare has failed to address them. But they're not because at the end of the day, Democrats don't want a solution. They want a political issue.” (01:58–07:47)

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