American taxpayers for hundreds of billions of dollars for illegal aliens and people that came into our country illegally from gangs, from prisons, from mental institutions. They wanted to pay them $1.5 trillion, which would have really hurt our healthcare businesses and our recipients at levels never seen before. Today we're sending a clear message that we will never give in to extortion, because that's what it was. They tried to extort the Democrats tried to extort our country. (00:12–00:24)
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Asserts that a proposed $1.5 trillion payment would harm healthcare businesses and recipients.
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