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Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 17 of Government Shutdown

Published October 17, 2025 | Video Starts at 06:24

But you've been in Congress for 44 years and everybody clearly understands what's going on. You're holding the entire country hostage to protect your own political correct. I mean, … Democrats want to spend 1.5 trillion [dollars] on wasteful spending. … out the irony that is equally clear. Okay. As much as we disagree with Schumer and the Senate Democrats and all that's going to happen tomorrow, no one, not a … (06:24–06:35)

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“Never in the history of Congress has a party shut down the government over a clean CR.”
Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 17 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded October 17, 2025 | 08:39-08:45
“The border has been totally closed. There's virtually zero illegal crossings now in the last four months as it's been recorded.”
Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 17 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded October 17, 2025 | 23:27-23:34
“There's about 20 million people who crossed that border when it was wide open for four years.”
Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 17 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded October 17, 2025 | 23:44-23:49
“Democrats have now voted for the 11th time to keep the government closed.”
Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 17 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded October 17, 2025 | 00:30-00:35
“Democrats have voted now 11 times to shut the government down.”
Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 17 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded October 17, 2025 | 00:30-00:35
“Yesterday the Senate Democrats took it a step further. They rejected a standalone bill to fund our nation's defense and pay our troops.”
Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 17 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded October 17, 2025 | 01:02-01:11
“The bill was passed out of committee in the Senate with broad bipartisan support.”
Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 17 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded October 17, 2025 | 01:14-01:19
“Democrats still engaged in a stunt on the floor and they rejected it.”
Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 17 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded October 17, 2025 | 01:19-01:24
“Democrats will go out and raise their hands with and cheer with [the Hate America rally attendees].”
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“Democrats have refused to reopen the government.”
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“They distributed talking points cheering on the shutdown.”
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“Chuck Schumer confirmed yesterday that he'll attend tomorrow's rally.”
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“You're demanding a trillion and a half new spending instead of the clean, totally non partisan CR.”
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“Americans have more freedom right now to express themselves and speak their minds after Republicans took over.”
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“Chuck Schumer is making the decision to keep the government closed.”
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“Democrats are using [the American people] as leverage to demand more wasteful spending.”
Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 17 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded October 17, 2025 | 08:58-09:03
“Democrats have voted 10 times to deny paychecks to troops.”
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“Democrats have voted 10 times to force our TSA agents, border patrol officers, and air traffic controllers to work without pay.”
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“Democrats have voted 11 times now to block the paychecks for our troops.”
Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 17 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded October 17, 2025 | 09:24-09:28
“ICE is doing the job that the American people demanded that they do.”
Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 17 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded October 17, 2025 | 22:48-22:53
“Ultimately, we need comprehensive immigration reform to deal with all this.”
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“Rep. Elect Grijalva is congratulating for winning her late father's seat.”
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“Rep. Grijalva has hired 16 employees.”
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“Nancy Pelosi took 25 days to administer the oath to [Julia Letlow].”
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“I opposed [George Santos's] expulsion from Congress.”
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