English transcript

We reject all of this. This is not about winning a political contest here.

Real people are losing. The American people are hurting.

Democrats have voted 14 times now, Shannon, to keep the government closed.

14 times they had the opportunity to have SNAP benefits flowed,

to let air traffic controllers be paid, to take care of all these problems and pay the troops.

And they said no. And it is a fact that no one can dispute that they shut the government down

over restoring free health care to illegal aliens as part of their $1.5 trillion

wild partisan wish list. They're playing games and real people are suffering because of it.