For all your people out there in Northern Virginia and even in Maryland in winter, spring, they were fighting President Trump over making cuts to federal employees. Now They've handed him [President Trump] the red pen to cut programs on a silver platter. Not sure that makes a lot of sense because those programs, they could argue in court, were funded by Congress and authorized by Congress. (02:06–02:11)
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Asserts that the shutdown gives President Trump the ability to cut programs.
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