Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., told Newsmax Tuesday that the opposition of Democrats on Capitol Hill to the GOP’s stopgap funding bill might shut the government down for “a day or two,” but it’s really “just the next chapter of Trump derangement syndrome.”

“They want to do everything they can to slow us down, to slow down President [Donald] Trump’s agenda, but remember, they own this budget,” Marshall said on “Wake Up America.” “This is [former] President [Joe] Biden’s budget. This is something that they should have taken care of last year, so they should be able to support it. They’re the ones that wrote this.”

“It continues spending at the same level,” he continued. “Maybe we save a little bit, but that’s their big problem. They want to extract a pound of flesh. For their votes, they want more spending, more social programs. We’re not willing to give, so we’ll see. 

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