… suffering, leveraging the American people, 42 million SNAP benefit recipients, the air traffic controllers, the military, the federal police officers and so many others that protect us in this nation. The Democrats have held [42 million SNAP benefit recipients, the air traffic controllers, the military, the federal police officers] hostage. They've used their own comments to say that they're using that for leverage to try to repair the broken Obamacare that they passed in 2010 when they said it would fix all of our health care issues. (01:39–01:42)
CLAIM
Asserts that Democrats have used government shutdown to leverage negotiations, affecting various public service sectors.
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