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Mike Johnson: “Democrats voted that many times to close it.”

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Speaker Johnson Delivers Floor Remarks Before Vote to Reopen the Government

Published November 13, 2025 | Video Starts at 00:26

And since that time, Senate Democrats have voted 14 times to close the government. Republicans voted a collective 15 times to open the government for the people. And the Democrats voted that many times to close it. And then they admitted many of them and we could name them here, but I'm not going to take the time. They admitted that they were using the American people as leverage in this political game. (00:26–00:29)

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Asserts that Democrats voted 15 times to close the government.

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“Senate Democrats have voted 14 times to close the government.”
Speaker Johnson Delivers Floor Remarks Before Vote to Reopen the Government | Uploaded November 13, 2025 | 00:17-00:22
“Republicans voted a collective 15 times to open the government for the people.”
Speaker Johnson Delivers Floor Remarks Before Vote to Reopen the Government | Uploaded November 13, 2025 | 00:21-00:26
“House Democrats voted to shut the government down.”
Speaker Johnson Delivers Floor Remarks Before Vote to Reopen the Government | Uploaded November 13, 2025 | 00:09-00:12
“It was 54 days ago when we had that vote September 19th.”
Speaker Johnson Delivers Floor Remarks Before Vote to Reopen the Government | Uploaded November 13, 2025 | 00:11-00:16
“While the Democrats keep voting to shut their government down, Republicans are going to vote to open it back up.”
Speaker Johnson Delivers Floor Remarks Before Vote to Reopen the Government | Uploaded November 13, 2025 | 01:15-01:20
“From the very beginning of this whole ordeal on the Republican side, we operated in good faith.”
Speaker Johnson Delivers Floor Remarks Before Vote to Reopen the Government | Uploaded November 13, 2025 | 01:44-01:50
“We offered a clean, non partisan cross.”
Speaker Johnson Delivers Floor Remarks Before Vote to Reopen the Government | Uploaded November 13, 2025 | 01:49-01:52
“We were honest and transparent with the American people from the very beginning.”
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“Every single day of the shutdown, we went out and looked right into the camera with a press conference, told the American people the simple…”
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