shutting down the Government, harming innocent people, it is just not Government workers that are being inconvenienced, it is the elderly, it is children, it is our veterans, it is our veterans' hospitals. If we opened this Government tomorrow, it would have absolutely no effect on negotiations that are going on on the budget. They could still trash the President. They could still have their negotiations, and you could go ahead with the business. There are a lot of people that are being inconvenienced and a lot of people are being devastated because of the shutdown of the Government. It is not just Government employees that are being inconvenienced, it is elderly, children, students, small business.
Willie Hefner: “shutting down the Government, harming innocent people, it is just not Government workers that are being inconvenienced…”
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Addressing the impact of the government shutdown on various groups of people.
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