If you want to pay the federal workers, if you want to stop punishing them for our dysfunction, if you want to stop using them as pawns in this political game, that's a demand you have to drop. The money appropriate in this bill will go to pay workers. That also is a false argument. But if you're not quite satisfied with the language it's been out there and we've been trying to work and get through feedback for … (00:39–00:43)
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