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John Thune: “We're not demanding anything. This is the cleanest, this CR…”

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

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Thune Joins The Briefing with Steve Scully

Published | Video Starts at 12:05

… force the other side to adopt a whole bunch of new policies, which include in this case, $1.5 trillion in new spending in exchange for keeping the government open. And We're not demanding anything. This is the cleanest, this CR is so clean. And it's short term. It's non partisan. It has no policy riders or partisan gimmicks on it. It's a straightforward bill to keep the government fund. (12:05–12:11)

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Asserts that the Continuing Resolution (CR) is clean and non-partisan.

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