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🗓️ 23 December 2019
⏱️ 29 minutes
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0:00.0 | Well, I'm at the White House working. You're out there partying tonight, but I don't blame you. |
0:18.0 | Here we go, New Year. Same old shutdown in Washington and that's our time. |
0:26.0 | And I just want to wish you a very, very happy New Year. It's going to be a great year. |
0:31.0 | The New Year is starting the same way as 2018 ended with a partial government shutdown and no end in sight. |
0:38.0 | Complicated, but great. People make it overly complicated, actually. |
0:43.0 | But I will tell you, there has never been an administration and I'm very proud of this. |
0:48.0 | That's done more than the Trump administration in the first two years of office. |
0:54.0 | For now, no deal. That leaves some 800,000 federal workers wondering when they'll get paid, |
1:00.0 | with pains starting to spread faster across shutdown nations. |
1:03.0 | Our economy is doing great. |
1:05.0 | The president is demanding Congress allocate billions to build a wall among the U.S. Southern border. |
1:11.0 | Wages arising for the first time in many, many years. |
1:14.0 | On January 3rd, the new Congress comes in and Democrats take control of the House. |
1:19.0 | Also, we're working on new trade deals. |
1:22.0 | Congress is new, but the stalemate is the same. |
1:25.0 | The government shutdown. |
1:26.0 | We're doing so well as a country. |
1:28.0 | President Trump announcing this afternoon, he and Democrats have reached a temporary three-week deal to reopen the government. |
1:35.0 | It ends the longest shutdown. |
1:37.0 | And everything is going to be so beautiful. |
1:39.0 | Thank you very much. Have a fantastic New Year. |
1:47.0 | Isn't that interesting? Well, another interesting thing. |
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