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The government shutdown inevitably leads to some chaos.
We'll negotiate over health care policy, but only once you do your job and open up people's government.
If Chuck Schumer wants to come into the Oval Office or come to my house, he is welcome to talk about how to fix health care policy for Americans.
This isn't a deal-making, this isn't a negotiation, this is hostage-taking.
We don't negotiate with a person who has taken the entire federal government hostage over a health care policy dispute.
I would say: ‘Here are my problems. What can you do to help me? Work with me. Don’t just shove stuff down my throat,’
The Chuck Schumer, [Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez] wing of the Democratic Party shut down the government because they said to us ‘We will open the government but only if you give billions of dollars of funding for health care for illegal…
Do I hope, eventually, that she is somehow moved by the same thing that I was moved by in church? Yeah, honestly, I do wish that, because I believe in the Christian gospel and I hope eventually my wife comes to see it the same way.
I think we’re headed to a shutdown because the Democrats won’t do the right thing.
I think we are headed into a shutdown because the Democrats won’t do the right thing.