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Ron Johnson: “The few times we've shut the government down, it's shut down…”

Featuring: Ron Johnson, Republican | U.S. Senate, Wisconsin

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Published | Video Starts at 00:48

And the sense has become they're just gonna, they, the politicians are just gonna keep spending. How do we change that? Yeah, first of all, the shutdown politics is ridiculous. The few times we've shut the government down, it's shut down about 10% because the Democratic administration makes it as painful as possible. So I would think reporters getting sick of reporting on it. So let's just do away with it. There's an easy way of doing it. (00:48–00:56)

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Asserts that government shutdowns affect about 10% of operations and are made painful by Democratic administrations.

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