Trump on government shutdown: Democrats 'vote to keep it closed'

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The government shutdown is poised to become the longest ever this week as the impasse between Democrats and Republicans has dragged into a new month. Millions of people could lose food aid benefits, health care subsidies are set to expire and there are few real talks between the parties over how to end it.

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00:00Well, all we have to do is open up the country.

00:10You know, we voted 14 times to open the country.

00:13We have voted 14 times to open the country, and they vote to keep it close.

00:18All they have to do is vote to open the country, and we only need five Democrats.

00:23They have a lot of Democrats.

00:25We only need five.

00:26But the Republicans have voted 14 times to open the country.

00:31Well, it's a much easier situation than that.

00:35If they vote to open the country and it's opened up immediately, we don't even have to think about that.

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