In other words, essential workers. Workers who are ordered to come into work should get their salaries. It's a very simple, common sense proposition. The Democrats voted no. The vote was 54 to 45. So Warnock, Ossoff and Fetterman were the three Democrats who voted to pay the federal workers that are being forced to work and are not getting their paychecks. And every other Democrat voted no. No paycheck for you. So we continue going through the weekend. Next week, next week the Senate is going to take up a series of votes to, to try to reopen the government again. (00:50–01:03)
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Asserts that the vote to pay federal workers was 54 to 45, with three Democrats voting in favor.
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