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Mike Johnson: “Democrats just voted for the third time to make you stand in…”

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

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Speaker Johnson speaks amid DHS funding lapse

Published | Video Starts at 00:38

I've suggested, and I suggested yesterday, a press conference. We should probably take this vote tally, blow it up on a poster and put it at every airport terminal around America. The Democrats just voted for the third time to make you stand in those long lines and to jeopardize our country. You think of what's at stake right now. We have noted that the Department of Homeland security is the third largest department of the federal government. We have 10 agencies in DHS. (00:38–00:45)

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Asserts that Democrats voted three times against measures to reduce airport wait times and enhance security.

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