And I want to ask, what, if anything, did the Republican Party get out of this? Really the question is, what did the Democrats get out of it? They're the ones who caused the shutdown. They Democrats voted over a dozen times not to open the government. And so they went through all of this, put all this pain on the American people. You had tens of millions of Social Security recipients, you know, who are getting slower services. (00:14–00:18)
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