CNN host Jake Tapper told Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) on Friday on CNN’s “The Lead” that congressional Republicans are incapable of governing.
On Friday night, the House of Representatives passed a three-month funding bill to prevent a possible government shutdown.
Tapper said, “With all due respect, Sir, you’re going after the top Democrat in the Senate and a lame-duck Democratic president. Your conference, the House Republican conference, we go through this every single time Republicans control the House. You guys can’t pass legislation. You can’t govern.”
Lawler said, “We’ve passed a lot of legislation that is languished down the hall in the Senate.”
Tapper said, “Government funding legislation. Every time, we go through this.”
Lawler said, “Respectfully, respectfully, we passed a number of
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