And the only tool at the time was the shutdown. It's now. The question now is what do you do now? And it's been proven that it didn't achieve the desired result. There's no indication that another week or two was going to make any difference. And that would only multiply the pain that Americans are going through if it wasn't for SNAP and air traffic controllers and all the, the people around here that aren't getting paid. (02:48–02:53)
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Asserts that extending the shutdown would not have changed the outcome.
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