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Tom Cole: “Senate Democrats...shut the government down last year…”

Featuring: Tom Cole, Republican | U.S. House Oklahoma, 4th Congressional District

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Rep. Cole's Weekly Chat | Week of 7.13.26

Published | Video Starts at 05:05

And given that if the Democrats aren't willing to come to an agreement. You can't get anything done. And right now they're not willing to come to agreement. As a matter of fact, Senate Democrats...shut the government down last year, longest shutdown in American history. And then we had a partial shutdown of funding for the Department of Homeland Security this year. And that was the longest partial shutdown in American history until we were able to work our way around it, use a tool called reconciliation. (05:05–05:13)

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