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I didn't want this shutdown.

I want it to end, but not at any cost.

And of course, I wish that there was a path to saving this democracy and saving people's

health care that didn't involve pain.

This shutdown hurt.

It did.

But unfortunately, I don't think there is a way to save this country, to save our democracy, without there being some difficult, hard moments along.

So the bottom line is the Democrats went into this after a blue wave out of the American people saying we do want the opposition.

We, we, the working people want the, uh, the Democratic Party to fight for them.

And now they just caved and surrendered.

I think Chuck Schumer, his days are over.

I can't put that, if he cannot keep his caucus together, if he cannot keep his caucus together, he needs to go.

I didn't fully understand how Doug Wendon would work.

I don't want to just move past this shutdown without drawing some attention to some things that happened that are important during that time.

Ohio Senator Bernie Moreno, a Republican, called out Chuck Schumer on the Senate

floor over the Democrat proposal that would send Obamacare subsidies to millionaires.

Now, Republicans aren't a party of the poor, but neither are the Democrats.

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