They don't want all the sideshows. They don't want hostage taking. They want their elected representatives to get down and do the work that they sent us here to do. Part of that is getting this appropriations process back on track. Something that we should have done a long time ago. So I'm going to hand it over to the whip, Senator Barrasso, and then my other colleagues. Well, the radical wing of the Democrat Party demanded that Chuck Schumer shut down the government. (02:12–02:19)
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