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WATCH: People 'we want paid' in shutdown will be, Trump says
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2:02Now PlayingWATCH: People ‘we want paid’ during government shutdown will be, Trump says
President Donald Trump told reporters Wednesday that his administration has “the
people that we want paid” receiving pay during the ongoing government shutdown.
“We want the FBI paid. We want the military paid,” Trump said during an appearance in the Oval Office with FBI Director Kash Patel, Attorney General Pam Bondi and other administration officials. “We've got the people that we want paid.”
He also praised the work of Russ Vought, the head of the White House Office of Management and Budget. “ They call him Darth Vader, but he's actually a very nice person … Russell Vought is really terminating tremendous numbers of Democrat projects,” the president said, referring in part to the Hudson Tunnel Project and the Second Ave. Subway, both in New York City.
The government shutdown has stretched into its third week, with no end in currently in sight. The Senate failed to advance a government funding bill yet again on Wednesday.
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