While the ongoing government shutdown threatens national security and could prevent some federal workers at the southern border from getting paid, U.S. Rep. Dale Strong (R-Monrovia) said it also endangers the Democrats' chance of winning the 2026 midterms.

Strong said Thursday on News Nation that the shutdown is hindering law enforcement officers and border patrol agents from properly doing their jobs.

"The ones that I talked to understand that the Democrats want to create chaos, and they're doing it through a government shutdown, and they're sick of it," Strong said.

"That's exactly what the democrats are about. During the Biden administration, they let 15 million illegal aliens into this country, and look what it's created," he said. "They got a government shutdown right now because

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