We are not going to have our troops in harm's way without getting paychecks. We're not going to have the Coast Guard, tsa, other essential functions of the government shut down as the Democrats in Congress engineered already three times in this Congress [a government shutdown]. They engineered the longest shutdown in US History and then beat their own record in this Congress. So for about 120 calendar days they shut the government down. (00:38–00:45)
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Asserts that Democrats have engineered three government shutdowns in the current Congress.
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