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Chuck Schumer: “Workers are starting to miss out on paychecks.”

Featuring: Chuck Schumer, Democratic | U.S. Senate New York

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Published | Video Starts at 03:09

Instead of playing with people's lives, Donald Trump and Republican leaders in Congress need to sit down with Democrats and have a serious negotiation to fix health care and reopen the government at once. Workers are starting to miss out on paychecks. Seniors are worried about delays at the Social Security Administration. Small business with government contracts are in the dark. We need to end this shutdown as soon as possible. (03:09–03:13)

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Asserts that workers are missing paychecks due to the government shutdown.

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