00:00What you don't do is say, unless you do exactly what we want to do as congressional Democrats, we're taken hostage.
00:07And the hostage, it turns out, is critical, essential services that the American people need.
00:12Caroline talked about some of it. Let me talk about some more.
00:15Our troops are not getting paid, starting today, because of the Chuck Schumer wing of the Democratic Party.
00:21We have people who require food assistance, low-income Americans who require food assistance,
00:27who will not get it unless we reopen the government, thanks to Chuck Schumer and his wing of the Democratic Party.
00:33We have flood insurance as we start hurricane season in the southeastern part of our country.
00:39That flood insurance is going to disappear because of Chuck Schumer and the far left of the Democratic Party.
00:45We need to reopen the government. Let's fix America's problems. Let's work together to solve them.
00:49But let's reopen the government before we have our negotiation about health care policy.
00:55That's what the American people demand, and that's certainly what the President of the United States wants.
00:59Let me make one final point. I think a lot of Americans are asking themselves, why did this happen?
01:04Why did the Democrats shut down the government despite, as Caroline said, voting on the exact same piece of legislation six months ago?
01:10And there are a lot of different spins that we can put on it, a lot of different answers that we could give, all of them true.
01:15One answer I already gave is that they want to give health care benefits to illegal aliens.
01:19That is true. They gave us legislative text that would have undone us cutting off health care benefits for illegal aliens.
01:27That's one of the things that they asked for.
01:29But the reality here, and let's be honest about the politics, is that Chuck Schumer is terrified she's going to get a primary challenge from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
01:38The reason why the American people's government is shut down is because Chuck Schumer is listening to the far-left radicals in his own party because he's terrified of a primary challenge.
01:48So I'd invite Chuck Schumer to join the moderate Democrats and 52 Senate Republicans, do the right thing, open up the people's government, and then let's fix health care policy for the American people.
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