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Sean Duffy: “It's Democrats who've now said, I want to shut the…”

Featuring: Sean Duffy, Republican | Secretary of Transportation | National

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Sean Duffy sounds alarm over growing travel problems amid shutdown

Published | Video Starts at 24:35

Republicans offered a clean CR, meaning the funding from September 30 should be the very same as October 1. No changes, no modifications, no leverage points. It's Democrats who've now said, I want to shut the government down because I want to use this leverage. this shutdown, the pain of these controllers to get what I want. So they're the only ones who put in additional requirements to open the government back up. (24:35–24:42)

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Asserts that Democrats are responsible for the government shutdown to use it as leverage.

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