John Thune: “We need 50 [votes] to get anything done here in the Senate.”

“How much more difficult does that make your job as a leader? How much more difficult And Senate, in light of that? Well, we need, as you know, We need 50 [votes] to get anything done here in the Senate. And we have Republican senators who understand that we succeed as a team, we fail as a team.” (00:16–00:19)

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