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Ted Cruz: “The shutdown is driven by their desire for free taxpayer…”

Featuring: Ted Cruz, Republican | U.S. Senate, Texas

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'POLITICAL CRISIS': Ted Cruz addresses TWO things driving the government shutdown

Published | Video Starts at 00:47

It's like every issue across the sun, they picked every 8020 issue and decided, let's take the 20 side of it and let's abandon the middle class, let's abandon ordinary working people. And you look at this shutdown. Now, The shutdown is driven by their desire for free taxpayer provided health care for illegals. That is an extreme, that's the 20% side of an 80 20. And they're willing to shut the government down. But number two, what this is really about is Chuck Schumer is facing a political crisis. (00:47–00:53)

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Claims that the government shutdown is motivated by Democrats' push for taxpayer-funded healthcare for undocumented immigrants.

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