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Mike Johnson: “Democrats made a deliberate choice to keep the government…”

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Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 34 of Government Shutdown

Published November 3, 2025 | Video Starts at 12:01

But there's no other way to candy coat this to make it any prettier than it is. So we're now entering the fifth week of this Democrat shutdown, and it's for one reason. Democrats made a deliberate choice to keep the government closed. The shutdown will only end when those same Democrats make a deliberate choice to open it. The entire country is calling and waiting on just five more Senate Democrats to come to their senses and do the right thing. (12:01–12:06)

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“Democrats demanded $1.5 trillion in new spending obligations.”
Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 34 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded November 3, 2025 | 04:16-04:31
“Included in that is nearly $200 billion of taxpayer funds that they want to use to restore free health benefits to illegal aliens.”
Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 34 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded November 3, 2025 | 04:34-04:44
“They want to spend a half a billion dollars to prop up left leaning news organizations.”
Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 34 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded November 3, 2025 | 04:59-05:04
“They want to cut $50 billion from the rural hospital fund.”
Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 34 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded November 3, 2025 | 05:08-05:14
“Premiums have risen 60% in many categories since they passed [Obamacare] into law.”
Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 34 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded November 3, 2025 | 06:22-06:22
“We saved $185 billion just to start [by reforming Medicaid].”
Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 34 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded November 3, 2025 | 07:14-07:19
“It costs over $9 billion to fund SNAP for a month, and we only have, I think it's $5.2 billion in the contingency fund.”
Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 34 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded November 3, 2025 | 22:52-23:02
“Every Democrat except one in the House voted to close the government.”
Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 34 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded November 3, 2025 | 01:17-01:21
“Republicans have voted to open the government 14 times.”
Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 34 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded November 3, 2025 | 01:23-01:32
“13 times the Democrats have voted to close the government.”
Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 34 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded November 3, 2025 | 01:27-01:32
“Republicans in the Senate and the House voted to keep the lights on, to pay service members and our troops.”
Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 34 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded November 3, 2025 | 01:34-01:41
“Democrats have voted no every single time [to open the government].”
Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 34 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded November 3, 2025 | 01:56-02:00
“We took action to reduce fraud, waste and abuse in Medicaid.”
Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 34 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded November 3, 2025 | 07:07-07:11
“We got able-bodied young men without dependents off the [Medicaid] program.”
Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 34 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded November 3, 2025 | 07:10-07:14
“We got illegal aliens off the [Medicaid] program.”
Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 34 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded November 3, 2025 | 07:13-07:14
“We got millions of ineligible enrollees off the [Medicaid] program.”
Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 34 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded November 3, 2025 | 07:19-07:19
“The Schumer shutdown was never about health care.”
Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 34 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded November 3, 2025 | 07:44-07:47
“The resolution on the COVID era Obamacare subsidy issue was always going to be slated for debate in October, November and December.”
Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 34 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded November 3, 2025 | 07:55-08:02
“Republicans need at least seven Democrats to join us [to reopen the government].”
Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 34 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded November 3, 2025 | 10:23-10:28
“We only have 53 Republicans in the Senate. It takes 60 votes to reopen the government in the Senate.”
Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 34 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded November 3, 2025 | 10:27-10:34
“The House did its job September 19th.”
Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 34 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded November 3, 2025 | 10:33-10:37
“We're now entering the fifth week of this Democrat shutdown.”
Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 34 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded November 3, 2025 | 11:57-12:00
“The president is desperate for SNAP benefits to flow to the American citizens who desperately rely upon it.”
Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 34 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded November 3, 2025 | 21:45-21:52
“The SNAP situation, as Secretary Rawlins and I explained at the press conference on Friday, has legal impediments to that.”
Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 34 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded November 3, 2025 | 21:57-22:05
“The contingency fund in SNAP could not be used unless the underlying funds were flowing.”
Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 34 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded November 3, 2025 | 22:08-22:14
“The Democrats voted to stop SNAP payments.”
Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 34 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded November 3, 2025 | 22:40-22:44
“The easiest way to get full SNAP payments to everybody who is eligible is for the Democrats to come in here and vote to reopen the…”
Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 34 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded November 3, 2025 | 24:14-24:24
“You would have D.C. and Puerto Rico be made into states which would give four additional Democrat senators there in the count.”
Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 34 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded November 3, 2025 | 25:41-25:48
“You'd see them federalize elections so they could take over and manipulate things in the red states.”
Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 34 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded November 3, 2025 | 25:56-26:02
“November 21, that's 18 days.”
Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 34 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded November 3, 2025 | 26:37-26:40
“Republicans will be on the job every single day serving our constituents, helping guide them through the chaos that the Democrat shutdown…”
Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 34 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded November 3, 2025 | 27:44-27:51