The Democrats who we just demonstrated represent thousands and thousands of the most heroic men and women on the earth refuse to put their unserious partisan demands to the side and pay the troops. And here are the indisputable facts of this shutdown. Republicans want to pay the troops and we have shown that with our actions and our votes now nine times. And the Democrats want to use them as hostages to extort $1.5 trillion in new unserious partisan spending that we just won't go along with. (07:36–07:44)
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Asserts that Republicans have voted nine times to pay the troops during the shutdown.
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