John Thune: “We've now all voted 11 times to reopen the federal…”

“Had a great opportunity to meet with the president and talk about something that unifies all Republicans, Senate Republicans, House Republicans, and the President of the United States are all in favor of reopening the federal government. In fact, so much so that We've now all voted 11 times to reopen the federal government. But the longer the federal government stays closed, the more the impacts are being felt. Travel delays, benefit delays, you know, farmers are being impacted, millions of people going without paychecks.” (00:16–00:21)

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