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Mike Johnson: “As long as they can force a trillion and a half new dollars…”

Featuring: Mike Johnson, Republican | Speaker of the United States House of Representatives | National

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Speaker Johnson, House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 23 of Government Shutdown

Published | Video Starts at 04:24

They're perfectly fine with that. They're perfectly okay with real pain being felt by real Americans as long as it helps their political agenda as they see it. As long as they can force a trillion and a half new dollars in spending on America and get illegal aliens back on health care funded by US Citizens, that that's their counter proposal. And largely so many in the media are turning a blind eye to that. Well, as I said earlier, we stood up here every day and talk to you about some of the terribly harmful effects that the Democrat shutdown is causing on Americans. (04:24–04:34)

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Asserts that Democrats' counter proposal includes $1.5 trillion in spending and health care for illegal aliens.

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