Hakeem Jeffries: “More than 200,000 federal employees had already been forced…”

“And as Democrats, we're going to continue to stand with hardworking federal employees who've been under assault by Donald Trump and his administration since January 20th of this year. Prior to the start of the Trump Republican shutdown, More than 200,000 federal employees had already been forced off the job by Donald Trump before the shutdown. So it's unfortunate that Trump and the Republicans have chosen to use their own shutdown to further hurt the American people. Why? Our position continues to be come to the table.” (02:02–02:17)

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