Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Sunday that President Trump “has done all he can” to minimize the pain of the current government shutdown on Americans.

“So, we have done all we can. President Trump has done all he can to minimize the pain of the shutdown on the American people. Again, you remember under Barack Obama's shutdown, he was trying to gate off open air monuments in Washington, D.C., and were shutting down parks, just walking paths,” Duffy told CBS News’s Margaret Brennan on Sunday.

“President Trump has tried to make it less painful on the American people. So, we're looking for pots of money to pay essential workers, but there's really strict rules around what money we can use and how we can use it,” he added.

The ongoing shutdown comes after months of rising tension b

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