On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Arena,” Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) responded to a question on why Senate Democrats won’t vote for a clean continuing resolution, by saying it’s “because we’ve seen what’s happened since day one of the administration,” “They have fired federal employees in the absence of a shutdown. In fact, they have less legal authority to fire federal employees in a shutdown than in the absence of a shutdown.” And federal workers “want some kind of assurance that this kind of illegal activity won’t continue. But Trump’s unwilling to do that.”

Van Hollen said, “I’ve now voted seven times in the Senate, and will vote an eighth time this evening, to keep the federal government open, but to do so without giving Donald Trump a total blank check to continue his illegal a

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