The only thing we need in transportation are air traffic controllers. Cut off all mass transit funding to New York and the other cities of the country. All transit funding. Day six, Medicaid. They could cut off Medicaid almost totally [during a shutdown]. So within two weeks, they could just so decimate the federal government, almost throwing a bomb at it, that we could never recover. And wait, one more thing that's worse. (01:45–01:49)
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Asserts that Medicaid funding could be severely reduced during a government shutdown.
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