The president was talking about how the Secret Service did an amazing job and making sure that this threat was neutralized. Do those guys get paychecks right now that were at the White House Correspondence Center? Look, DHS is shut down. It's been shut down for more than two months. So they're not getting paid. Well, some of them are getting paid because the president is reallocating money from other parts of the budget. So some of them have gotten paychecks. (01:24–01:29)
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Asserts that the Department of Homeland Security has been shut down for over two months.
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