James Lankford: “Federal workers just experienced 43 days of shutdowns…”

“One is that it has an emotional impact on it. When I flew in this week from Oklahoma City, TSA agent there asked me, hey, are we going to shut down the government again? Federal workers just experienced 43 days of shutdowns, missed two paychecks. I mean, they feel it. So if it shuts down at all, they think, okay, here we go again on it. That's number one.” (01:40–01:45)

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