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Markwayne Mullin: “That would fund about 87% of the government.”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 05:32

We already did three coming out of the shutdown. We feel like we can get five more appropriation bills done maybe when we get back in January. That would fund about 87% of the government. That would leave that means we'd have nine appropriations, three appropriation bills left. If we, if we were to go into a shutdown on the three, it would be very minimum to what the government would actually resemble as a shutdown. (05:32–05:36)

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