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Steve Scalise: “It was Chuck Schumer who walked away back then a few weeks…”

Featuring: Steve Scalise, Republican | House Majority Leader, U.S. House Louisiana, District 1

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Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 17 of Government Shutdown

Published | Video Starts at 16:18

And we all know we have big differences. We have three appropriations bills that are in a conference committee that, frankly, Republicans and Democrats on those committees had already worked out the differences. And It was Chuck Schumer who walked away back then a few weeks ago and decided then he was going to shut the government down. not because we had really big differences on those policies, but because he needed to appease the radical base that had taken over his own party. (16:18–16:26)

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