We only have 53 Republicans. That means we need at least seven Democrats. And unfortunately, Rand votes no on all of these. So we have 52 Republicans to fund the government. So We need eight Democrats [to fund the government]. The 14 times we voted over the last 40 days, over and over and over again, we've gotten at most two or three Democrats. (02:42–02:45)
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