expose that detailed how the Koch brothers and others plotted the shutdown “from the day after Obama was re-elected.”

On Day 10 of the government shutdown, House Speaker John Boehner again refused to do the one thing that could reopen government and put hundreds of thousands of furloughed federal workers back on the job. Boehner refused to let the House vote on the resolution that Democrats negotiated with him and that the Senate passed before the funds to run the government ran out at the end of the last budget year. Instead, the leader of the House Republicans on Thursday offered a six-week extension of the nation's borrowing limit in exchange for holding negotiations on Social Security and Medicare cuts. Much of the government would remain shuttered.

“The position of the Democrats has got to be to tell Boehner to end the government shutdown, have a vote and if you have a vote the government will reopen,” said Sanders.

Sanders also discussed the lingering shutdown on CNN with Wolf Blitzer.