Markwayne Mullin: “If you look at it, you'll see that it's just full of fat…”

“But if they want to actually see the truth, read what our clean CR is and then read what they put down, what their CR is. Because If you look at it, you'll see that it's just full of fat waste, fraud and abuse that they want the taxpayers to pay to open the government for four weeks. Now it's like a week and a half. That's absurd. Why would any taxpayer want to pay that kind of money? Senator, appreciate it. Thank you very much, sir.” (07:58–08:07)

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