re: Video of Mulvaney Schooling Acosta

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CNN: "How can this be the 'Schumer shutdown' when Republicans control the White House, the House and the Senate?"

Mulvaney: "Come on, you know the answer to that as well as anybody. I laugh, I have to laugh, when people say that: 'Oh, well you control the House, the Senate, the White House. Why can't you get this done."

CNN: "But you do."

Mulvaney: "You know as well as anybody that it takes 60 votes in the Senate to pass an appropriations bill. You know that."

CNN: "I know that."

Mulvaney: "So when you only have 51 votes in the Senate, then you have to have Democrats' support in order to keep the government, to fund the government."

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