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Senator Joni Ernst joins us now.

Senator, can you believe seven years later in another lockdown?

Lockout?

I cannot. I cannot, Brian, and it is shameful on the part of the Democrats that did not join us to keep the government open.

We know that this was a clean funding bill. This was a short-term

extension. And what is really unreasonable is the fact that Democrats voted against a continuing

resolution, which is based on President Biden's numbers. So we're still in the Biden fiscal year from last year,

and yet they couldn't bring themselves to support it. Why? Because Donald Trump is now the

president. And do you think because so much blowback from Schumer personally last time,

because he said the responsible thing to do would be to

not fight this battle in March and continuing to fund the government. And do you think now he's

overcompensating for it? Yeah, I think you're absolutely correct, Brian. He is very afraid of a primary

from the far left. He's afraid of that group of his base. And so now he has to

overplay it. And the unfortunate thing is, of course, there will be members of his party that

suffer because of that. But most importantly, it's the people of the United States that are going to suffer during a shutdown.

And this is a Schumer shutdown. Let's not forget that, Brian.

Here's what he said yesterday, cut 12.

Their bill, they call it clean, we call it totally partisan.

There was no input from Democrats.

Not a single line in their bill had input from Democrats.

They never consulted us.

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