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Tom Cole: “This will be the third time in four months that Senate…”

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

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Rep. Cole's Weekly Chat | Week of 2.9.26

Published | Video Starts at 07:08

All those areas will not get funded. Now those people will continue to work because they mostly provide essential services for security. So This will be the third time in four months that Senate Democrats have shut down either the entire government or parts of the government. They did it for 43 days last year. They didn't get a single change done. They just inconvenienced everybody and kept people from getting paid that had to still go to work. (07:08–07:18)

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Asserts that Senate Democrats have shut down the government or parts of it three times in four months.

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