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MCCASKILL: “And here's the other problem that Democrats have. If they end up being the reason that the government shuts down, that muddles their message that, in fact, it's the Trump administration that is trying to shut down your government services like Social Security, like Medicaid, like veterans benefits. So I predict, like all other CR drama, that they will pass a CR this week and they will continue the current levels of government funding until September. But then the train wreck comes, Mika. Then they have to cut Medicaid to give rich people a tax cut. And people don't realize what Medicaid does. I think people have in their mind Medicaid is just for poor people in the cities. The majority of people -- there are more people on Medicaid in rural America than urban America. And children -- almost 40 percent of the children in America are getting funding from Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program, which is part of the Medicaid program. So that's where you're really going to see a problem for the Republicans, because they're going to basically take a knife to the very areas that put them in the White House and in Congress.”