They, they made the whole cause up. As you know, Maria, the shutdown was never, it was never about any issue. Their counter proposal for our clean continuing resolution back in mid September was that they wanted to spend an additional $1.5 trillion. which included $200 billion, to return health care to illegal aliens, among other crazy priorities. They knew we weren't going to do that. They were trying to show this is what it was all about. (02:01–02:09)
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