Point I want to make is if you look at the Democrats initial demands, the reason why this process really fell off the ramps. From the very beginning, they came to us saying that they wanted Democrats...wanted to give massive amount of taxpayer benefits to illegal aliens. That's ridiculous. And you're certainly not going to shut down the government because we refuse to give taxpayer funded health care to illegal aliens. But that is the situation that we now find ourselves in. (00:40–03:15)
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