And one Republican senator who's close to these horrible Doge Musk people said that they expected to close it down for six months, nine months, till the whole federal government was obliterated. Musk's dream. Musk's dream to get $2 trillion out of the federal government could happen under a shutdown. So I felt the very people who are upset now if we went through with the shutdown and all these things happened, would be coming two, three weeks later and saying, get it open, get a snap open, get mass transit open. (02:19–02:26)
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Asserts that a government shutdown could facilitate a significant reduction in federal spending, aligning with Musk's alleged goals.
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