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Tom Tiffany: “Democrats shut down the government for over a month last…”

Featuring: Tom Tiffany, Republican | U.S. House Wisconsin, District 7

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Published | Video Starts at 00:56

… world, they always want to infiltrate here into America and cause bad things to happen to us. So we always have to be vigilant. And it's very unfortunate that no Democrats shut down the government for over a month last fall with the Department of Homeland Security refusing to fund [it]. the Department of Homeland Security. It's very unfortunate that Democrats are not taking our national security with the importance that they should. (00:56–01:12)

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Asserts that Democrats were responsible for a government shutdown related to Homeland Security funding.

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