Markwayne Mullin: “We owe money to the State Department, we owe money to Dow…”

“I came out of a 76 day shutdown, the longest in American history, but it's my fourth one in 12 months. So because of the Democrats shutting us down for political theater, We owe money to the State Department, we owe money to Dow, we owe money to Interior because they were keeping us afloat. Listen, the American people still want the homeland safe and yet the Democrats wanted to play games with us and not fund us.” (06:51–07:01)

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