Steny Hoyer: “The Director of OMB has made it clear we want their funding…”

“Why? Because the political will of the President and the political will of the Congress was to reach agreement that does not now exist. The Director of OMB has made it clear we want their funding to be shut down. That's a quote of Mr. Boats. Mr. Trump said we had two shutdowns. Excuse me, this was Mr. Gingrich two shutdowns in 1995 and became the first re elected GOP majority since 1928.” (01:27–01:34)

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