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Mike Johnson: “Democrats... would not even... agree to vote on a bill that…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 18:43

That's what the reconciliation package will allow. It's quite sad and really shocking and dangerous. Again, Democrats with their crazy policies, they have Trump derangement syndrome. They can't even, they Democrats... would not even... agree to vote on a bill that would simply restart stock our munitions. We've used some of those, as you know, in Operation Epic Fury. And we've got to do that. It's a necessity. The first job of the federal government is to protect the people. (18:43–26:36)

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Claims Democrats would not vote on a bill to restock munitions.

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