Furious Dem. Senator Goes Off on Ted Cruz Over 2013 Shutdown: ‘People Were Killed!’

While debating on measures to reopen the federals government, Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO) shouted a rebuttal to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), invoking how his state was affected during the government shutdown in 2013.

Starting by saying he rarely calls out senators on the other side of the aisle, Bennet proceeded to go off..

“These crocodile tears that the Senator from Texas is crying for first responders are too hard for me to take,” he said, before shouting: “They’re too hard to take. When the Senator from Texas shut this government down in 2013, my state was flooded! It was underwater! People were killed! People houses were destroyed!”

He further bashed Cruz and President Donald Trump for wanting to erect a “medieval barrier.”

“I can assure you that in Colorado, if a president said he was going to use eminent domain to erect a barrier across the state Colorado … He was going to steal the property of our farmers to build his medieval wall there wouldn’t be an elected leader from our state that would support that,” he continued.

Watch above, via CSPAN

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