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Speaker 3: Story number one, the long.

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Speaker 4: Government shut down in America's history finally over. The stop

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Speaker 4: President Donald Trump signed the legislation to fund the government again,

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Speaker 4: putting an end to the longest shutdown in history. And

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Speaker 4: Democrats got nothing from doing this. The exact same deal

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Speaker 4: why did they hold Americans hostage, hurt so many Americans,

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Speaker 4: Donald Trump, and they put politics ahead of the country. Now,

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Speaker 4: Trump signaled Monday the government would reopen soon. As consequence

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Speaker 4: measure for the fiscal year twenty twenty six. Now, the

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Speaker 1: Seven weeks, the Democrats shut down as inflicted massive harm.

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Speaker 1: They deprived more than one million government workers from their

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Speaker 1: To call for a termination to the filibuster so that

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Speaker 2: It will never happen again.

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Speaker 1: So with my signature, the federal government will now resume

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Speaker 1: That's like a really massive tax cutcy equivalent of that,

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Speaker 1: That's among the things that add up to the biggest

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Speaker 1: known as Obamacare. Obamacare was a disaster from day one.

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Speaker 2: It's a disaster.

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Speaker 1: And I'm calling today for insurance companies not to be

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Speaker 2: And I've had I.

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Speaker 1: Think great support, I've even had Democrat support. So we

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Speaker 1: and you'll buy your own health insurance, and you'll negotiate

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Speaker 2: So we're going to pay a lot of money to

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Speaker 4: There's a couple different ways from what the President had

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Speaker 4: never give in to extortion, because that's what it is.

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Speaker 4: They tried to extort. The Democrats tried to extort our country.

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Speaker 4: Trump said the Democrats inflicted massive harm and keeping the

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Speaker 4: government closed since October the first. There's data that clearly

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Speaker 1: Makes the Democrats shut down as inflicted massive harm. They

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Speaker 1: Nobody's ever seen anything like this one. This was a

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Speaker 2: So I just want to tell the American.

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Speaker 1: People, you should not forget this when we come up

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Speaker 2: You also want.

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Speaker 4: To don't forget what they've done to this country. Now,

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Speaker 4: this is the fight, and this is where it's going.

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Speaker 4: I think there's a very good chance that the government

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Speaker 4: But you also have to understand this is par for

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Speaker 4: I mean it's simply put this way. Whatever they have

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Speaker 4: Another example of that is what they did with allowing

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Speaker 4: millions of illegal immigrants to come into this country. Another

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Speaker 4: So the government has reopened. The big question now is

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Speaker 4: January the government will shut down yet again.

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