Watch: Irate Murkowski stares down reporter with 10 seconds of awkward silence

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) stared down a reporter for over 10 seconds without speaking after he asked her to respond to criticism over her support for President Donald Trump's so-called "One Big Beautiful Bill."

"Senator [Rand] Paul said that this was, that your vote was a bailout for Alaska at the expense of the rest of the country," NBC's Ryan Nobles told Murkowski as he caught up with her in a Senate hallway.

"Oh, my God!" the senator gasped before locking eyes with Nobles for about 12 seconds.

"That's what Senator Paul said," Nobles noted. "I didn't say it, ma'am, I'm just asking for your response."

"My response is, I have an obligation to the people of the state of Alaska," Murkowski said, referring to exemptions to Medicaid and SNAP benefit cuts she obtained for her state. "I fight for my state's interests, and I make sure that Alaskans are understood."

"And so when people suggest that federal dollars go to one of our 50 states in a, quote, 'bailout,' I find that offensive," she continued. "I advocated for my state's interests. I will continue to do that, and I will make no excuses for doing that."

"Do I like this bill? No. Because I tried to take care of Alaska's interests."

Murkowski acknowledged "that in many parts of the country, there are Americans that are not going to be advantaged by this bill."

"I don't like that," she insisted. "I don't like the fact that we moved through an artificial deadline, an artificial timeline to produce something to meet a deadline rather than to actually try to produce the best bill for the country."

"But when I saw the direction that this is going, you can either say, I don't like it, not try to help my state, or you can roll up your sleeves," the senator added.

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