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Glenn Grothman: “President Trump is doing what he can to make the shutdown…”

Featuring: Glenn Grothman, Republican | U.S. House of Representatives, Wisconsin, District 6

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Published | Video Starts at 25:34

Now we have Donald Trump, who is out there making his Cabinet meetings public, public for everybody and always, wherever he goes, stopping talking to the media. So it's nice to have such an open president again. And you're right, President Trump is doing what he can to make the shutdown affect the smallest number of people possible. Unlike Barack Obama. Barack Obama was in the same boat. And when there was a shutdown with him, man, he made it as difficult as possible. Yeah. (25:34–25:41)

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Asserts that President Trump is minimizing the impact of the government shutdown.

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