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Kevin Cramer: “53 votes are not enough. Even if a couple more votes come…”

Featuring: Kevin Cramer, Republican | U.S. Senate from North Dakota

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Senator Cramer Joins Erin Burnett on CNN

Published | Video Starts at 00:17

This is done. And there is going to be a shutdown at midnight, the first in seven years. Is that where we are? Well, it certainly looks that way. 53 votes are not enough. Even if a couple more votes come in, we're not going to get to 60. I think that's by design. I think that's the commitment Chuck Schumer has made to the far left in his party. It's the commitment that he's gotten to the vast majority of his Democratic colleagues to agree with. (00:17–00:22)

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Asserts that 53 votes are insufficient to pass the measure, needing 60 votes.

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