Leavitt: ‘The Democrats Continue to Recklessly Hold the American People Hostage over Their Demands to Give Illegal Aliens Free Healthcare’

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LEAVITT: “We are now in day three of the Democrat-led government shutdown. The Democrats continue to recklessly hold the American people hostage over their demands to give illegal aliens free health care. Republicans are fully unified behind passing non-partisan, clean funding bill, the exact same bill that Democrats approved back in March to reopen the federal government, but those same Senate Democrats are now voting against this clean funding bill and keeping the people’s government closed. I understand Democrats will have an opportunity very shortly here to change course and we hope that they will. There are significant personal impacts on millions of Americans as a result of this current government shutdown. The 1.3 million men and women of America’s Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Coast Guard and Space Force who serve honorably and put their lives on the line to defend us all are not being paid.”