Tina Smith: “The federal government, the, the funding for the federal…”

“You know, I mean, who knows what he would do? So, so this is not going to work. We cannot go along with that. The federal government, the, the funding for the federal government that has not already passed some of it, about half of it is passed in terms of number of bills, will expire on Saturday night. So my view is that we should like buckle down and get serious and agree to some common sense things that we could all support.” (22:59–23:11)

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