BUDGET/GOVERNMENT: [Reporter: “Mr. President, do you relate to the pain of federal workers who can’t pay their bills?”]
“I can relate. And I’m sure that the people that are on the receiving end will make adjustment. They always do. And they’ll make adjustment. People understand exactly what’s going on. But many of those people that won’t be receiving a paycheck, many of those people agree 100 percent with what I’m doing.”
-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump Before Marine One Departure,” whitehouse.gov, Jan. 6, 2019
[Note: Most federal employees were placed on unpaid furlough during a government shutdown due to an impasse over adding funding for Donald Trump’s proposed border wall to the appropriations bill. The 2019 shutdown lasted 35 days, the longest in history.]