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Tom Cotton: “The Schumer shutdown is a last ditch effort to save face…”

Featuring: Tom Cotton, Republican | U.S. Senate, Arkansas

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Published | Video Starts at 1:02:51

Remember, it wasn't happenstance that the American people threw radical Democrats out of the Oval Office and congressional leadership last fall. So don't be fooled. The Schumer shutdown is a last ditch effort to save face after spending years pushing disastrous policies that led to rising costs and skyrocketing crime. Let me leave you with one last quote from from 2013. Don't hold the American people hostage simply because you're so sure you're right and everyone else is wrong. (1:02:51–1:03:03)

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Asserts that the shutdown is an attempt to recover from policies causing increased costs and crime.

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