Rep. Tom Cole said Democrats “put the American people through an awful lot of pain” by forcing a government shutdown over expiring subsidies tied to what he called a broken and unaffordable Obamacare program.
Appearing Thursday morning on Newsmax’s “Wake Up America,” the Oklahoma Republican argued that the fight was unnecessary and left critical federal workers uncertain about pay and operations.
Cole said the shutdown “put us at risk in the skies, our military people didn’t know if they were going to get paid,” adding that “air traffic controllers, meat inspectors, a lot of essential people didn’t get paid.”
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