Is it just pure leverage at this point? Yes. No. They want to inflict maximum pain. They want the shutdown to be painful for the American people. And it's. So they don't want. They Democrats were furious when Trump paid the military [during the shutdown]. and he had enough funds from the one big beautiful bill that he could shift money around and pay the military. They wanted the military, military not to be paid. (08:34–08:42)
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Asserts that Democrats were upset when Trump found funds to pay the military during a shutdown.
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