John Cornyn: “Federal employees are now beginning to miss their paychecks…”

“In a normal world, that's what we would be doing now. But we can't do any of that during the government shutdown. Federal employees are now beginning to miss their paychecks, which will have consequences that reverberate throughout the country. One in six Americans lives paycheck to paycheck. So it may not be a big deal to wealthy senators on the Democratic side who don't have to worry about paying the bills or paycheck to paycheck.” (07:06–07:15)

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