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Ron Johnson: “We would not win a shutdown fight.”

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

Senator Johnson on The Kudlow Report

Published December 17, 2013 | Video Starts at 11:03

Dan. We did not have the votes in the House. I talked to the appropriators or talk to people in the armed services. We didn't have the votes and We would not win a shutdown fight. Obviously we didn't win it last time. We're not going to win one in January either. Dan, I want you to react to that. And also something Paul Ryan said yesterday. (11:03–11:06)

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Asserts that a government shutdown fight would not be won by their side.

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