Vice President Vance is going to be there.
Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt: The democrats shut down the government because President Trump and the republicans will not force American taxpayers to pay for free healthcare for illegal aliens.
Vice President Vance [White House press conference]: The Chuck Schumer/AOC wing of the democratic party shut down the government because they said to us, 'we will open the government, but only if you give billions of dollars of funding for healthcare for illegal aliens'. That's a ridiculous proposition.
Vice President Vance: If this thing drags on for another few days [government shutdown], or God forbid, another few weeks, we are going to have to lay people off. We are gonna have to save money in some places, so that essential services don't get turned off in other places.
Vice President Vance: I'll tell Hakeem Jeffries right now, I make this solemn promise to you, that if you help us reopen the government, the sombrero memes will stop. I've talked to the president of the United States about that.
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Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt: There are unfortunate consequences to a government shutdown, and the federal government is not receiving any cash at the moment, and so the Office of Management and Budget has been tasked with looking over the receipts, and looking over the budget of the entire federal bureaucracy, and as the vice president said, determining what needs to continue to go out the door, and what can we continue to keep running, and what, unfortunately, is going to have to come to an end…unfortunately, layoffs are very likely, as the vice president just said, going to be a part of that.
Reporter: I want to ask about this video that the president posted the other day. It was an AI deep fake of himself talking about something called medbeds. What was he trying to communicate to the public there, and why did he delete it?
Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt: I think the president saw the video and posted it, and then took it down. He has the right to do that, it's his social media. He's incredibly transparent, as you all know.