It's line item appropriation. It's directly related for that. And they cannot move funds in those areas unless Congress gives consent. The Senate won't even pay essential employees right now. Well, the Republicans will, but the Democrats won't even vote to pay essential employees. much less allow those benefits to move. And we wouldn't have to do this honestly if they would just simply vote to reopen the government on a clean CR that they wrote. (04:22–04:30)
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Asserts that Democrats in the Senate are not voting to pay essential employees.
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