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Scott Bessent: “The Democrats kept the government shut down.”

Featuring: Scott Bessent, Republican | Secretary of the Treasury | National

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Published | Video Starts at 11:48

We will see come January 30, because that's the point of my editorial, is to put the Senate on notice that The Democrats kept the government shut down. And Ezra Klein in the New York Times took the mask off. He said this wasn't about health care, this was about stopping totalitarianism. (11:48–11:53)

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Asserts that Democrats were responsible for the government shutdown.

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