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Mike Johnson: “Democrats are required to open the government.”

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

Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 27 of Government Shutdown

Published October 27, 2025 | Video Starts at 02:19

So I brought you a little visual aid here to just remind everybody what the simple facts are. Four simple facts here, that Democrats are required to open the government. They keep saying Republicans are in charge of government. We aren't. Not in the Senate. 60 votes control the Senate. Not a bare majority. (02:19–02:24)

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“They want to give $200 billion in health benefits to illegal aliens and non citizens paid for by US taxpayers.”
Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 27 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded October 27, 2025 | 03:14-03:23
“Small businesses across the country are being forced to go without roughly 170 million in SBA-backed loans each day.”
Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 27 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded October 27, 2025 | 10:53-11:02
“That adds up to $4.5 billion in blocked loans to just over the course of this shutdown so far.”
Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 27 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded October 27, 2025 | 11:01-11:10
“The CBO...said, yeah, it's going to save $185 billion and they got 2.3 million ineligible recipients off of it already.”
Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 27 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded October 27, 2025 | 38:57-39:09
“Day 27 means it's almost been a full month since the Democrats shut down the government.”
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“Last week, 1.4 million federal workers missed a full paycheck.”
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“Every Republican in Congress wants to stop this madness desperately.”
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“We have voted many times, over a dozen times, collectively, 13 times, to reopen the government.”
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“We need Democrats to help. You need 60 votes in the Senate. We only have 53 Republicans.”
Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 27 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded October 27, 2025 | 01:54-02:02
“They have now voted 12 times to keep the government closed.”
Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 27 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded October 27, 2025 | 02:36-02:41
“Democrats have laid out a trillion and a half billion dollar wish list of crazy items like giving taxpayer funded health care to illegals in…”
Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 27 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded October 27, 2025 | 03:14-03:23
“They want billions in wasteful programs to be returned to foreign countries.”
Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 27 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded October 27, 2025 | 03:24-03:29
“They want to give a half a billion to left leaning news organizations.”
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“They want to cut $50 billion from rural hospitals.”
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“The Democrats have now openly admitted...that they're using the pain of the American people as their leverage.”
Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 27 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded October 27, 2025 | 03:52-04:01
“Chuck Schumer himself boasted that every day of the shutdown gets better for us.”
Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 27 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded October 27, 2025 | 04:10-04:14
“They voted for CRS every time it was possible in their lives as recently as March of this year.”
Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 27 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded October 27, 2025 | 04:27-04:33
“House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries finally relented. He gave in and he gave his endorsement to the socialist running to be mayor of New…”
Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 27 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded October 27, 2025 | 06:16-06:26
“Every reporter in this room should be asking every House Democrat individually whether they too agree with Hakeem's endorsement of the…”
Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 27 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded October 27, 2025 | 07:25-07:35
“What we're witnessing is truly the end of the Democratic Party as we've known it.”
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“They have also decided they had to shut down the government in an unprecedented move.”
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“Small businesses are the largest employers in our country.”
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“For the one in five small business owners who rely on government contracts, this shutdown is forcing them to pull back on their investments.”
Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 27 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded October 27, 2025 | 09:59-10:08
“Since the House has last met and Last vot voted. But even during government shutdown, House committees could still meet.”
Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 27 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded October 27, 2025 | 29:51-29:58
“The House did its work. I've said it over and over and over.”
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“The Senate Democrats have chosen not to [open the government].”
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“Republicans, I don't know what the Democrats are doing other than publicity stunts.”
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“The administration has worked, as you all know, very creatively and very hard to limit the pain on the Americans because of the Democrats…”
Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 27 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded October 27, 2025 | 32:46-32:56
“The contingency funds are not legally available to cover the benefits right now.”
Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 27 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded October 27, 2025 | 33:04-33:09
“Democrats blocked that appropriation when they rejected the clean Continuum resolution.”
Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 27 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded October 27, 2025 | 33:29-33:35
“The best way for SNAP benefits to be paid on time is for the Democrats to end their shutdown.”
Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 27 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded October 27, 2025 | 34:07-34:12
“We did get the President, as you know, tapped in research and development, unobligated funds and paid the military in the middle of October.”
Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 27 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded October 27, 2025 | 34:38-34:46
“There's 1.4 million federal employees. [The American Federation of Government Employees] represent 800,000 of them.”
Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 27 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded October 27, 2025 | 35:55-35:59
“The entire shutdown is a charade because they know and anybody who pays attention knows we always were going to arm wrestle over the…”
Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 27 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded October 27, 2025 | 36:12-36:22
“We're the greatest nation in the history of the world. We've got to be able to operate.”
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“Republicans have been working on a fix for health care, we've been doing this for years.”
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“We published volumes of ideas on healthcare. This was our volume one, A Framework for Personalized Affordable Care.”
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“We got ineligible recipients off of Medicaid. We preserved it for the people who rely upon it and need it the most.”
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“The expiring Obamacare subsidy at the end of the year is a serious problem because...it is subsidizing bad policy.”
Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 27 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded October 27, 2025 | 39:17-39:28
“Republicans have a long list of ideas...putting all of that, formulating all that, grabbing the best ideas that we've had for years to put…”
Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 27 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded October 27, 2025 | 39:43-39:57
“Many of them are avowed to get us to a single payer system. They do love socialism, my friends.”
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