Mayra Flores: “Republicans cannot cave on their $1.5 trillion wish list.”

“All we need is a few Democrats to vote in favor of it and we'll, we'll reopen the government and the shutdown will be over. This is really on them. Republicans cannot cave on their $1.5 trillion wish list. We just can't afford it. We really can't. You know, this country does not have a revenue problem, has a spending problem, big time. We need to go back to pre pandemic spending.” (30:48–30:56)

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