And yet here's Senator Schumer claiming that Republican partisanship is the reason for shutting down the government. Spare me. It continued this year since Republicans took over, He [Schumer] blocked negotiations that would have made this funding bill a bipartisan effort from the start. Senator Collins, the chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and Congressman Cole, the chair of the House Appropriation Committee, made multiple, multiple offers to their Democratic counterparts to negotiate on a bipartisan basis government funding bills, just like we did last summer. (09:47–21:04)
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Asserts that Schumer blocked negotiations for a bipartisan funding bill.
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