On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Mornings with Maria,” Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) said that he thinks Republicans can get enough appropriations bills done to fund approximately 87% of the government, and if there was a shutdown on what’s left, “it would be very minimum to what the government would actually resemble as a shutdown. So, the American taxpayers probably wouldn’t even know about it, however, there would be a good opportunity, since we’re only talking about 13% of the government, we could CR the rest of it.”

Host Maria Bartiromo asked, “How many appropriations bills can you get done, what are you expecting, so that you could actually offset the potential for getting [taken] hostage again by a government shutdown by your colleagues on the left?”

Mullin answ

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