John Thune: “We are going to have to extend the date because the November…”

“I do, you know, and maybe that's part of their goal is to have the longest be able to claim they had the longest shutdown in American history. But it is, it continues to drag. And We are going to have to extend the date because the November 21 date no longer makes any sense. It doesn't give us any time to do appropriations bills. So there's now conversations around pushing that into December, perhaps even January.” (02:07–02:15)

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