00:00I'm joined by our dear friend Kelly Loeffler, former U.S. Senator and now the leader of the U.S. Small Business Administration.
00:07And she can speak specifically to some of the great hardships that are being felt by the people who provide jobs now around this country.
00:15Day 27 means it's almost been a full month since the Democrats shut down the government.
00:21And as we near the end of this month, the pain being felt by so many hardworking people around this country is very real.
00:27And it gets worse with each passing day.
00:31Here's some of the stats.
00:32Last week, 1.4 million federal workers missed a full paycheck.
00:36Now, you know, many of them are furloughed and many more are deemed essential workers.
00:41Those who are essential, for example, to keep the country safe.
00:45TSA agents we've discussed and air traffic controllers and border patrol and, of course, our troops.
00:50But so many of them now are going without pay.
00:54The families of military service members and the air traffic controllers and so many of these others are now at very real risk of missing the paycheck at the end of this month.
01:02The Trump administration has done everything possible to bend over backwards, to try to find sources of funding within the federal government to be able to cover the bases.
01:10But it is getting more and more challenging with each day.
01:14Now, every Republican in Congress wants to stop this madness desperately.
01:19And we have voted many times, over a dozen times, collectively 13 times, to reopen the government, to keep it open and reopen it once the Democrats closed it.
01:27But here's the very simple and important fact that no one should forget.
01:31We have no ability.
01:33Republicans do not have the ability to do this on our own.
01:36It's a simple math problem.
01:38We need Democrats to help.
01:41You need 60 votes in the Senate.
01:42We only have 53 Republicans.
01:45The Democrats are the ones voting repeatedly to shut down the government.
01:49But they're not opening it back up.
01:52They spent most of their time trying to distract the American people from the very simple truth.
01:56So it brought you a little visual aid here to just remind everybody what the simple facts are.
02:01Four simple facts here.
02:03The Democrats are required to open the government.
02:07They keep saying Republicans are in charge of government.
02:10We aren't.
02:10Not in the Senate.
02:1160 votes control the Senate, not a bare majority.
02:15And so point number one, Democrat votes are required to open the government.
02:18Point number two, they refuse to do it.
02:20They have now voted 12 times to keep the government closed.
02:24And they'll have another chance today or tomorrow, maybe multiple times this week, and we'll see what they do.
02:31Now, the third point is very important because they've been trying to confuse the American people.
02:36They've tried to say this is a fight about health care or this or that or any other thing.
02:40And it's very simple.
02:41They put this on paper.
02:43They made this their demand in writing in the record of the Senate, and it has not changed.
02:47These are just four sub points there under fact number three, but there's many more.
02:53But among the things they're demanding, this is what the Democrats in the Senate are demanding to reopen the government.
02:59They want to give $200 billion in health benefits to illegal aliens and non-citizens paid for by U.S. taxpayers.
03:06That is in their proposal.
03:08They want billions in wasteful programs to be returned to foreign countries.
03:12See, we stop these things.
03:14They want to turn it all back on.
03:15They're demanding that we do all that to get the government open for hardworking Americans again.
03:20They want to give a half a billion to left-leaning news organizations, and they want to cut $50 billion from rural hospitals.
03:27We cannot, we will not do those things.
03:31And they know that very well.
03:34Which leads us to point number four.
03:35Remember, the Democrats have now openly admitted, and you all had to cover it last week, that they're using the pain of the American people as their leverage.
03:44That was the number two ranked Democrat in the House.
03:47The Democrat, the minority whip, who said that, acknowledged it in an interview, that this is leverage.
03:53And Chuck Schumer himself boasted that every day of the shutdown gets better for us.
03:57That's his now infamous quote that he wishes he had not said out loud.
04:01But you know what they're doing and why.
04:03Why are they demanding these things?
04:05Why is point number three so essential to them?
04:07Why would they do this?
04:08Because it's unprecedented, as we've noticed.
