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John Thune: “We want to do appropriations bills. That's something they…”

Featuring: John Thune, Republican | Senate Majority Leader, South Dakota

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Thune Joins The Hugh Hewitt Show

Published | Video Starts at 02:46

I think that's the, that's the, the bottom line when they vote to open up the government. We're happy to talk to him about some of these other things. I mean, obviously I've made it very clear We want to do appropriations bills. That's something they [Democrats] didn't do under Chuck Schumer. And he liked to write those bills behind closed doors in his office. And so we've tried to have an open, transparent process, and we want to get back to that. (02:46–02:51)

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Asserts that appropriations bills were not done under Chuck Schumer's leadership.

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