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Ron Johnson: “97% [of the government] is always going to continue to…”

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Published | Video Starts at 09:39

Good thing is air traffic control controls are being paid because they're normally the first people to start digging their heels in and really make it painful on a shutdown. But again, it's always been the case when you say shut down government, 97% [of the government] is always going to continue to operate [during a shutdown]. And that's certainly true in DHS as well. So again, Democrats, they've got the backing of the, of the legacy media. They can continue to dig their heels in, really not get blamed for it. (09:39–09:41)

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Asserts that the majority of government operations continue during a shutdown.

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