Karoline Leavitt: “Democrats have continued to shut down the government with 35…”

“The administration is encouraging Democrats to reopen the federal government so this chaos and disruption to our air traffic control system in the United States of America stops. It is ridiculous that we have even gotten to this place and that the Democrats have continued to shut down the government with 35 days our air traffic controllers continuing to work unpaid. every single major airline in our country coming out and begging the Democrats to please reopen the government.” (22:57–23:05)

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