It's not every day you actually hear real cheering like that in the Oval Office. It's a little more formal usually. Obviously, Republicans surrounding the president, they were happy. This is finally older over and The American people aren't being held hostage anymore. Yeah, look, the Democrats, they, they inflicted pain on millions of Americans. They also wasted billions of dollars of taxpayer money. Just, just the thousands upon thousands of government workers who stayed home for 43 days. (02:49–02:52)
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Implies that the government shutdown was akin to holding the American public hostage.
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