Trump: Government Shutdown Cost US $1.5 Trillion

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00:00For the past 43 days, Democrats in Congress shut down the government of the United States

00:05in an attempt to extort American taxpayers for hundreds of billions of dollars for illegal aliens

00:11and people that came into our country illegally from gangs, from prisons, from mental institutions.

00:18They wanted to pay them $1.5 trillion, which would have really hurt our health care businesses

00:25and our recipients at levels never seen before.

00:30Today we're sending a clear message that we will never give in to extortion, because that's what it was.

00:36This cost the country $1.5 trillion, this little excursion that they took us on.

00:42Republicans never wanted a shutdown and voted 15 times for a clean continuation of funding.

00:49There's never been a time when one or the other party ever didn't sign a continuation.

00:57It's just a continuation, not a big deal.

00:59It's a continuation, and we'll talk later.