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Tom Emmer: “You support a $1.5 trillion spending proposal that would…”

Featuring: Tom Emmer, Republican | Majority Whip, U.S. House, Minnesota's 6th District

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Speaker Johnson: "Welcome to day 9 of the democratic shutdown"

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Tina Smith claims she shut the government down so that she can, quote, protect Minnesotans health care, unquote. But, Tina, if that really was the case, why do You support a $1.5 trillion spending proposal that would give health care to illegal aliens while cutting female $50 billion from rural health care. Is she just not being honest? This was never about health care for the Democrats. This has been about picking a fight with President Trump so that they can try to score points with the terrorist wing of their party. (15:47–15:59)

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Asserts that Tina Smith supports a $1.5 trillion proposal giving health care to illegal aliens and cutting $50 billion from rural health care.

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