Tim Sheehy: “Bill Clinton laid off several. I think he's laid off 600,000…”

“You don't have to cut programs or lay off federal workers. It's literally never happened before in government shutdowns in the last 14 of them. Well, I don't think that's the accurate. I mean, Bill Clinton laid off several. I think he's laid off 600,000 plus government employees during his tenure. And a lot of that was during a shutdown he had. Not during a government shutdown as a result of the government shutdown, though?” (02:56–03:02)

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