The Schumer shutdown causes real pain for real people, veterans, the elderly, people who rely upon these services, our rural hospitals that have been struggling. Our members are out helping them to access the rural hospital fund that we created and that the president signed in law on July 4th that no Democrats insisted on. Chuck Schumer wants to take those funds away. They're trying to make sure that the rural hospitals can access them because they know that this effort is underway. (21:06–21:15)
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Asserts that a rural hospital fund was created and signed into law on July 4th without Democratic insistence.
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