Laura Ingraham: “They want to hold the whole country hostage to try to put us…”

“So, Senator, is that what the American people need to understand here, that they want to relitigate what they lost last spring? They lost the big beautiful bill debate. They didn't get their way. But now They want to hold the whole country hostage to try to put us into more debt, borrow a 1.5 trillion. We don't have the money, so I have to borrow the money to get their way. Is that what we are? Yes. Look, the Schumer shutdown boils down to this.” (01:17–01:24)

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