If you want to go to the Coast Guard station in Hawaii, they were literally working at the station by flashlight. Now, everybody was being paid, but Contracts weren't being paid, contractors were not being paid, and program dollars were not done. What does that mean? Simple things like in fema, all the fire training center, all the domestic preparedness conferences, all the things that we do to be able to prepare for a hurricane coming up for this fall, those things couldn't happen. (07:55–08:03)
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