Vice President JD Vance held a closed-door meeting at the White House on Thursday with aviation officials about the impact of the federal government shutdown.

Watch Vance and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy’s news briefing in the video player above.

Vance spoke to reporters after the meeting outside the White House West Wing, with his message aimed at Democratic lawmakers.

“All we need is five reasonable Democrats to join three moderate Democrats and 52 Republicans to reopen the government,” Vance said.

“I just want to say to any Democrat in the United States Senate, we are happy to talk about any policy issue. We’re happy to talk about health care policy. We’re happy to talk about tax policy. We’re happy to talk about regulatory policy, but not at the point of a gun,” he added. “Y

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