We had passed the bills, we had majority support in both chambers. But this is another instance where The filibuster was used to thwart us and in an unprecedented way filibusters never used for routine funding. And frankly the Senate Democrats had agreed to the measures in the bills and then decided they were going to throw a temper tantrum. And frankly we let them get away with it. (07:08–07:17)
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