Tim Kaine: “The President told the Republicans to write this budget…”

“Because the President is having a temper tantrum. Open government first. So, Senator, by your own logic, should Democrats not vote to reopen the government first and negotiate later? Kristen, here's what's different now. The President told the Republicans to write this budget without any Democratic involvement. He instructed them to do this without any Democratic involvement. That's not the way things work here. And so when the Republicans wrote up this budget, we didn't sit on our hands.” (03:24–03:30)

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