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Markwayne Mullin: “Democrats want the shutdown, which obviously they do, and…”

Featuring: Markwayne Mullin, Republican | U.S. Senate, Oklahoma

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SEN. MULLIN: 'If they're really that concerned, they can open the government back up.' | On Balance

Published | Video Starts at 03:22

So if health care is your issue, that let's negotiate on health care. But there has to be some option to keep this from happening, because if the Democrats want the shutdown, which obviously they do, and they could open it up in five minutes tomorrow if they wanted to. but they don't. You got to work overnight. So they could. Well, you could have a vote tonight. Well, we probably, they, they control the fort for 24 hours now. (03:22–03:34)

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Asserts that Democrats want the government shutdown and could end it quickly if they chose.

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