John Thune: “We want a normal appropriations process.”

“But we've repeatedly now gone through this, and at some point the Democrats are going to have to say yes for an answer. We want a normal appropriations process. We want to give them an opportunity to sit down and litigate some of issues they want to talk about. But that can't happen until the government gets opened up again.” (01:31–01:34)

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