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00:00Well, thank you very much.

00:02This is a big day, big night.

00:04It's very important what has taken place because

00:09we've seen how good government can be and how

00:13bad government can be if people don't know what

00:16they're doing.

00:17For the past 43 days, Democrats in Congress

00:20shut down the government of the United States in an

00:23attempt to extort American taxpayers for

00:26hundreds of billions of dollars for illegal

00:28aliens and people that came into our country

00:32illegally from gangs, from prisons, from mental

00:35institutions.

00:36They wanted to pay them $1.5 trillion, which would

00:39have really hurt our healthcare businesses and

00:44our recipients at levels never seen before.

00:47Today, we're sending a clear message that we will

00:50never give in to extortion because that's what it was.

00:53They tried to extort.

00:54The Democrats tried to extort our country in just

00:58moment, I'll sign a bill exactly like we asked

01:01Democrats to send us all along, many days ago.

01:05This cost the country $1.5 trillion, this little

01:09excursion that they took us on.

01:12Republicans never wanted a shutdown and voted 15 times

01:16for a clean continuation of funding.

01:19There's never been a time when one or the other party

01:23ever didn't sign a continuation.

01:26It's just a continuation, not a big deal.

01:28It's a continuation, and we'll talk later.

01:31Yet the extremists in the other party insisted on

01:35creating the longest government shutdown in

01:37American history, and they did it purely for

01:40political reasons.

01:41I want to thank Speaker Mike Johnson, Senate

01:44Majority Leader John Thune, as well as House

01:47Majority Leader Steve Scalise, Majority Whip Tom

01:50Emmer and numerous other great Republican leaders and

01:54congressmen and senators who are here, who, frankly,

01:57spent a long time in Washington getting this

01:59thing to go away.

02:01Over the past seven weeks, the Democrats shut down

02:03has inflicted massive harm.

02:06They caused 20,000 flights to be canceled or delayed.

02:10They departed so many times, so late.

02:14People were hurt so badly.

02:16Nobody's ever seen anything like this one.

02:18This was a no-brainer.

02:20This was an easy extension.

02:23But they didn't want to do it the easy way.

02:24They had to do it the hard way.

02:25And they looked very bad, the Democrats do.

02:28They deprived more than one million government

02:30workers from their paychecks and cut off food

02:33stamp benefits for millions and millions more

02:35Americans in need.

02:37They caused tens of thousands of federal

02:39contractors and small businesses to go unpaid.

02:43And the total effect of the damage here, antics

02:46scores, will take weeks and probably months to

02:49really calculate accurately, including the

02:52serious harm that they did to our economy and to

02:54people and to families.

02:56So I just want to tell the American people you

03:00should not forget this.

03:01When we come up to midterms and other things, don't

03:03forget what they've done to our country.

03:05I also want to call for a termination to the

03:09filibuster so that this can never happen again.

03:12If we had the filibuster terminated, this would

03:14never happen again.

03:16And don't forget, we have another date coming up in

03:18the not too distant future.

03:19We can never let this happen again.

03:22And we should be able to pass great, really great

03:24legislation.

03:25So I say terminate the filibuster because, by the

03:29way, the Democrats will do it immediately if they

03:31ever assumed office, which hopefully they won't.

03:36I want to also thank the eight Senate Democrats who

03:38finally did the right thing in voting to end this

03:42craziness, this madness.

03:43But unfortunately, the vast majority of

03:46congressional Democrats were happy for millions of

03:50Americans to suffer.

03:51They really did suffer, too.

03:53And the Democrats admitted.

03:54They said, well, no, we finally have a point.

03:56Even though people have to suffer, we finally have a

03:59point, and that didn't work out too well for them.

04:02So this is no way to run a country.

04:04I hope we can all agree that the government should

04:07never be shut down again.

04:08Again, end the filibuster, terminate the

04:11filibuster, it'll never happen again.

04:13So with my signature, the federal government will

04:17now resume normal operations.

04:18And my administration and our partners in Congress

04:22will continue our work to lower the cost of living,

04:25restore public safety, grow our economy, and make

04:28America affordable again for all Americans.

04:32Again, but it all includes fixing the healthcare

04:35system that Democrats broke with the disaster

04:39known as Obamacare.

04:40Obamacare was a disaster from day one.

04:43It's done nothing but go up.

04:45And if you remember President Barack Hussein Obama,

04:49when he came up with this crazy idea, he said,

04:53everything's going to be great.

04:54Rates are going to go down.

04:56Payments are going to go down.

04:57Everything's going to go down.

04:59It went the exact opposite with the biggest increase

05:02of any of healthcare in any country.

05:04It's a disaster.

05:06And I'm calling today for insurance companies not to

05:10be paid, but for the money, this massive amount of

05:12money to be paid directly to the people of our country

05:16so that they can buy their own healthcare, which will

05:19be far better and far less expensive than the disaster

05:23known as Obamacare.

05:25And I've had, I think, great support.

05:27I've even had Democrat support.

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