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Tim Kaine: “He's treating [the shutdown] like a joke.”

Featuring: Tim Kaine, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Virginia

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Government Shutdown: Day 21

Published | Video Starts at 00:45

He held one meeting with congressional leaders the day before the shut it shutdown deadline and when it was done, immediately started sending out joke AI generated videos of Democrats with sombreros on and artificially enhanced voices. He's treating [the shutdown] like a joke. He had a meeting in the White House last week with the Argentinian President to say they would get $20 billion of American taxpayer funds for a reason that to most seems mystifying. (00:45–00:48)

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Asserts that the President is not taking the government shutdown seriously.

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