On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” Rep. Glenn Ivey (D-MD) said that he has gotten calls from people who are glad the government shutdown is coming to an end because they were “worried about their air travel. And God bless them, I don’t want to keep anybody from getting to where they’re trying to go for Thanksgiving. But there are larger forces at work here, in some ways.”

Ivey said, “I’m a definite no on this bill. I think it was the wrong way to go. It’s essentially the same vehicle they passed back in March, and they haven’t improved it in any way. In fact, it’s gotten worse, because, in the interim, they passed the big, ugly bill, and that was the $1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid, among other terrible things for the American people.”

Host Jake Tapper then asked, “You represent

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