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Patrick Morrisey: “The Senate has had an opportunity to have a very clean CR…”

Featuring: Patrick Morrisey, Republican | Governor of West Virginia

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Published | Video Starts at 25:10

This is a Schumer shutdown. Chuck Schumer is holding the federal government hostage because he thinks he can get some political benefit. And the reality is The Senate has had an opportunity to have a very clean CR that they can vote on that would have ended all this nonsense. So we got to go back to the fundamentals. And I know there are a lot of people that are trying to cause problems. (25:10–25:18)

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Asserts that the Senate had the opportunity to vote on a clean Continuing Resolution to end the shutdown.

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