You know, the people that pay your Social Security, federal law enforcement, military, that we force these people to work and we're not going to give them a paycheck, by the way, There's already a law that we will pay them back pay once the federal government gets reopened. We've got appropriation bills. So this is just a charade. It's a very destructive charade. It's, you know, people are playing games with people's lives. (01:03–01:10)
CLAIM
Asserts that there is a law ensuring back pay for federal workers after a government shutdown ends.
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