Well, the Democrat caucus here in town in the Senate has chosen to shut down the government over a clean, nonpartisan funding bill. That's right. A clean, non partisan funding bill. We didn't ask Democrats to swallow any new Republican policies. We didn't add partisan riders. We simply asked Democrats to extend existing funding levels to allow the Senate to continue the bipartisan appropriations work that we started. And Senate Democrats said no. Why? (00:30–00:37)
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