John Thune: “We need to open up the government.”

“So it's a, it's a ploy. It's something designed to give them political cover. It doesn't solve the problem. We need to open up the government. The other things that they want to talk about, I've told them we're willing to do that, but it can't be done while the federal employees are being held hostage.” (03:41–03:44)

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