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Speaker Johnson Delivers Remarks After Vote to Open Government

Published November 13, 2025 | Video Starts at 00:58

This outcome was totally foreseeable. I said that this would be the outcome when all this began back in mid September. They did it anyway. Democrats admitted that they used the people as leverage [in the shutdown]. and they got nothing for their selfish political stunt here. They didn't achieve anything with this at all. And anyone who studied history would know that shutdowns never yield any positive result. (00:58–01:01)

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Asserts that Democrats admitted to using the American people as leverage during the shutdown.

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