If you look at things like the National Institute of Health, like, like research on cancer, much of that will be shut down all across the federal non essential. And people are going to say that seems insane. Why wouldn't we fix that? To make sure when we have these shenanigans happen that that's not affected. And I think this shutdown will extend. I think it'll be weeks. I think it will be. Schumer is trying to protect his own rear end. (19:48–19:56)
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Asserts that the current system during shutdowns is flawed and should be fixed to prevent essential services from being affected.
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