We're not here to just Be my way and the highway about everything. But what we're also not going to accept is the complete collapse of the American health care system. So that just because The Republican Party has decided to take a million federal workers hostage. Can I ask you on that? Because you before have said a government shutdown is like hostage taking when it comes to paychecks because you came into office actually during a government shutdown, the longest in US History. (43:34–43:38)
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