There's some things that we can do in a bipartisan way with Democrats, but we've got to get past this government shutdown and the Democrats holding the federal employees hostage, basically, if you will, to try and get a bunch of unrelated policy things that they want to get done. And I said I'm perfectly happy to have the conversation, talk with them about some of those things, but we can't do that while the government's being held hostage. (10:37–10:55)
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Asserts that Democrats are using federal employees as leverage for unrelated policy goals.
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