Not sure that makes a lot of sense because those programs, they could argue in court, were funded by Congress and authorized by Congress. Some of them are no longer authorized and none of them are funded. So The president now has a blank check to go out and cut those very programs. Democrats say they don't want to see cut and they respond by saying oh, he's being a bully. Whoa, wait a minute. (02:21–02:27)
CLAIM
Asserts that the president can cut programs due to the shutdown.
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