Democrats shut down the government for “purely political purposes,” Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said during an appearance on Breitbart News Daily .

Burgum began by explaining that President Donald Trump is standing up to the “crazy partisanship from the Democratic leadership” who opted to “shut down the government for purely political purposes.”

“As you know, and your listeners know… the house has already passed a bill saying we’re going to keep funding going exactly the way it is right now,” he said, pointing out that Republicans presented a clean bill to move ahead.

“And this is the simplest thing in the world for them to just agree to that, and then everything goes forward,” he said, explaining that Democrats are “trying to use disruption of services for political purposes.”

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