Hello, everyone. I'm Dana Perino, along with Kelly Ann Conway, Harold Ford Jr., Jesse Waters, and Greg Gutfeld.

It's 5 o'clock in New York City, and this is the 5.

President Trump vowing to clear out dead wood on day two of the shutdown as both sides dig in for the long haul.

The White House has been freezing billions in funds for Democratic states,

and the president was meeting with his budget chief, Russ, vote, in order to determine which, quote,

Democrat agencies will be on the chopping block next.

Meanwhile, after claiming Republicans are lying about illegal immigrants getting health care, some Democrats are just

flat out admitting it. The amount of money that actually is going towards people who are undocumented

is such a small portion. We got to make sure Americans have the health care that they need.

And if that means we got to shut this government down, so be it.

AOC is taking some heat for the shutdown.

Republicans say Chuck Schumer is basically a...

This is so not about me.

Because I saw some senators speculating about this, and I saw some Republican members of Congress saying, oh, well, if we have this shutdown, it's because of AOC.

Well, if that's the case, my office is open, and you are free to walk in and negotiate with me directly.

There was a thought from the Republicans that AOC is directing this.

And she said that senators are welcome to go to her office directly.

Why are you saying such a ridiculous thing?

Amid all this shutdown drama, a meme war is being fought in the White House, has been looping those Hakeem Jeffrey's sombrero AI pictures

in the briefing room. And let's just say the minority leader and CNN, they are not finding

this funny at all. They were playing that mariachi music as well over the loudspeakers for all

the press that was coming in and out of the White House today. They simply don't care about that

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