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Mike Johnson: “Democrats have decided they will not fund. They want $0 to…”

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

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Republicans are going to be forced to do the responsible thing of ending this shutdown on our own. It's unthinkable to me but this is where they are. The Democrats have decided they will not fund. They want $0 to secure the border. They want $0 to enforce federal immigration law. That's where they are. It's been two months of partisan obstruction, two months of chaos in American airports. (18:09–18:15)

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Asserts that Democrats do not want to allocate funds for border security.

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