President Trump: For the past forty-three days, democrats in congress shut down the government of the United States in an attempt to extort American taxpayers for hundreds of billions of dollars for illegal aliens, and people that came into our country illegally; from gangs, from prisons, from mental institutions. They wanted to pay them 1.5 trillion dollars, which would have really hurt our healthcare businesses and our recipients, at levels never seen before. Today, we're sending a clear message that we will never give into extortion, because that's what it was.They tried; the democrats tried to extort our country.

President Trump: I'm calling today for insurance companies not to be paid, but for the money, this massive amount of money, to be paid directly to the people of our country, so that they can buy their own healthcare, which will be far better, and far less expensive, than the disaster known as Obamacare.

President Trump: I'm always willing to work with anyone, including the other party. We'll work on something having to do with healthcare. We can do a lot better; we can do great! So much money is involved, and we're willing to pay so much money to the people. So we're going to pay a lot of money to the people, they're going to go out and buy their own healthcare, and we're going to forget this Obamacare madness.