Zohran Mamdani: “I think you cannot separate the party at large from that…”

“I can tell you the opinion of the deal. That is not a deal. How about the opinion of the Democratic Party and how it behaved? I think disappointing. I think you cannot separate the party at large from that deal. I mean, this was a shutdown which was because of the Republican Party's insistence on throwing millions of Americans off of health care. To the extent that they would rather shut the entirety of the government down, throw millions of people off of SNAP benefits, and then after all of those days, to just reopen it without having won any of those same demands.” (25:06–25:22)

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