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BREAKING NEWS: John Thune Issues Extremely Clear Warning To Democrats After CR Fails In The Senate

Published | Video Starts at 00:54

We think that's the right way to do this. There were 13 such opportunities the Democrats had when President Biden was in the White House where we did short term clean continuing resolutions. The suggestion by the Democrats that somehow they ought to be able to hijack a continuing resolution to attach a trillion dollars of policy and cut things that we just funded a short few weeks ago, like rural hospitals, is completely out of any sort of historical context of what continuing resolutions have been used for in the past. The CR is simply a means to an end. It is a way to fund the government until you have an opportunity to do the appropriations process. (00:54–01:19)

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Asserts that Democrats want to attach a trillion dollars of policy to a continuing resolution, which is historically unprecedented.

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