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Lori Chavez-DeRemer: “We need this government open. We need to get back to work…”

Featuring: Lori Chavez-DeRemer, Republican | U.S. Secretary of Labor | National

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Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 35 of Government Shutdown

Published | Video Starts at 40:14

That will be the next thing that we have to be concerned about if people stop receiving their unemployment insurance will be another detrimental fact to the American workforce. So that is what we're focused on now. We need this government open. We need to get back to work for the American people. The American workers deserve to know where their next paycheck is coming from. And the American economy deserves the American workers there. So yes, this is impacting the labor force I would imagine. (40:14–40:18)

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Asserts the necessity of reopening the government to resume work for the American people.

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