Mike Johnson: “Democrats have voted to close it [the government].”

“The Senate Democrats then voted that down. And you see now eight times total in Congress, Republicans have voted to keep the government open and Democrats have voted to close it [the government]. Period. End of sentence. And why did they do this? Because they want to spend one and a half trillion dollars in new taxpayer funded spending as a ransom for ending the shutdown.” (04:03–04:12)

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