And good for them to go there and ask Donald Trump, the president of the United States, to justify why he is proposing to cut Medicaid, why He [Donald Trump] is willing to shut down the government for the sake of putting on the backs of working people the tax cut he gave to the richest people in America. Do you think that Democrats should vote to allow the government to shut down in order to try to extract concessions from Trump on these matters? (09:54–26:49)
CLAIM
Asserts that Donald Trump is willing to shut down the government to maintain tax cuts for the wealthy.
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