Even as lines stretched around the block at food banks and air travel grew ever more precarious, progressive Democrats pushed to embrace The Senior Senator from Vermont published an op-ed calling for a continued shutdown and continued opposition to President Trump. even though the President had exactly nothing to do with the clean funding extension that Republicans were proposing. (02:37–02:57)
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Asserts that the Senior Senator from Vermont advocated for continuing the shutdown in an op-ed.
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