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Speaker 1: We're not targeting federal agencies based on politics. We're targeting

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Speaker 1: It's joking and we're having a good time. You can

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Speaker 1: a very important job for the American people. The President

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Speaker 1: of the United States likes to have a little bit

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Speaker 1: of fun when he's doing it.

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Speaker 2: And I think that's okay. I'll take one work.

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Speaker 3: I like fun. But even I I just the memes.

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Speaker 2: I don't need. I just need the work done. It's

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Speaker 2: all I need.

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Speaker 3: That's it.

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Speaker 2: Fire some workers and not just furlough them. Why is

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Speaker 2: this shutdown any different?

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Speaker 1: So we have made any final decisions about what we're

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Speaker 1: going to do with certain workers. What we're saying is

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Speaker 1: that we might have to take extraordinary steps, especially the

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Speaker 1: longer this goes on. We're going to have to take

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Speaker 1: extraordinary measures to ensure the people's government operates again, not perfectly,

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Speaker 1: because it's not going to operate perfectly in the midst

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Speaker 1: of a shutdown, but operate as well as it possibly can.

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Speaker 1: And I think that the Democrats, if they're so worried

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Speaker 1: about the effect this is having on the American.

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Speaker 2: People, and they should be what they should do is.

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Speaker 1: Reopen the government, not complain about how we respond to

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Speaker 1: the fact that Chuck Schumer and the Democrats have shut

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Speaker 1: down the government in the first.

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Speaker 3: Place, so the Vice President is heading out. Caroline Levitt

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Speaker 3: will continue the press a briefing. And as for that meme,

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Speaker 3: it was Schumer and Hakim Jeffries speaking after the meeting

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Speaker 3: with President Trump, and there they put Hakeem Jeffries in

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Speaker 3: a sombrero with the black handlebar mustache.

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Speaker 2: And I'm just not a meme guy. We'll have more

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Speaker 2: of the press conference coming up. Keep it right here.

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Speaker 2: I'm Tony Katz. This is Tony Katz today