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Ted Cruz: “The shutdown had real negative effects on the economy, on…”

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Published | Video Starts at 05:54

There's a long list of people that were hurt during this, and this was all just for one reason. They hated Donald Trump, and they didn't care who got hurt in the process. Yeah, look, The shutdown had real negative effects on the economy, on the GDP. It had real negative effects on small businesses. It had real negative effects on millions of ordinary Americans. And all of that was inflicted to score political points for the Democrats with a handful of really, the crazies. (05:54–05:59)

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Asserts that the government shutdown negatively affected the economy and GDP.

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