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Mike Johnson: “Half the federal civilian workforce is effectively laid off…”

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

Livestream: Speaker Johnson Shutdown Press Conference Day 6

Published October 6, 2025 | Video Starts at 30:51

Veterans health services that they desperately need and demand go down the list. We've got our troops, Border Patrol agents, TSA agents serving, trying to protect America without pay right now. Half the federal civilian workforce is effectively laid off right now, furloughed. They can't go to work. They don't have the money. Chuck Schumer, for political cover, decided to turn off the funds. And real people are getting hurt. FEMA services. (30:51–30:59)

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“An estimated 1.4 million illegal aliens are no longer riding that wagon either.”
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“It amounts to $192 billion. $192.8 billion.”
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“Here we are again in another day of Democrat shutdown.”
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“We don't spend money responsibly here. We haven't for many years.”
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“Typically for the annual funding of the government, it's done in a back room, literally.”
Livestream: Speaker Johnson Shutdown Press Conference Day 6 | Uploaded October 6, 2025 | 15:51-15:58
“There's a deal made by the top four leaders in Congress and that's hoisted upon the members.”
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“Sometimes the bills are thousands of pages long and it's always said that few members have fully read it or understood it.”
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“We divide the spending of the taxpayers funds into 12 categories.”
Livestream: Speaker Johnson Shutdown Press Conference Day 6 | Uploaded October 6, 2025 | 16:42-16:46
“We got three of those bills on the floor. We debated them on the floor, we passed them on the House floor and we sent that over to the…”
Livestream: Speaker Johnson Shutdown Press Conference Day 6 | Uploaded October 6, 2025 | 17:37-17:46
“The Senate passed three of their own bills off the floor.”
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“The end of the fiscal year is September 30, not December 31.”
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“We put together a very simple clean continuum resolution.”
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“It's 24 pages. It's the bare minimum.”
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“The Democrats in the House agreed to [the extension until November 21st].”
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“We passed it out of the House in bipartisan fashion and we sent it over to the Senate.”
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“Chuck Schumer has served in Congress three fourths of my life.”
Livestream: Speaker Johnson Shutdown Press Conference Day 6 | Uploaded October 6, 2025 | 19:12-19:25
“Republicans are the ones concerned about health care.”
Livestream: Speaker Johnson Shutdown Press Conference Day 6 | Uploaded October 6, 2025 | 20:50-20:53
“Health care is broken in America. It's too expensive. The quality of care needs to rise.”
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“The tax credit, the subsidy you've heard about that expires December 31st.”
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“Medicaid, for example, is broken. Medicaid doesn't work well. It's underfunded and it was full of fraud, waste and abuse.”
Livestream: Speaker Johnson Shutdown Press Conference Day 6 | Uploaded October 6, 2025 | 23:33-23:42
“We got to make sure that illegal aliens are not on Medicaid.”
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“Medicaid is intended for the elderly, the disabled and young pregnant women.”
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“We ended Medicaid funding for most non citizens.”
Livestream: Speaker Johnson Shutdown Press Conference Day 6 | Uploaded October 6, 2025 | 25:36-25:40
“It would cost American taxpayers, hard working Americans an estimated $6.2 billion.”
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“They expanded Medicaid to cover all able bodied illegal alien adults.”
Livestream: Speaker Johnson Shutdown Press Conference Day 6 | Uploaded October 6, 2025 | 25:53-25:59
“He would also repeal the $50 billion that Republicans put into the bill to support our rural hospitals.”
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“This is a key part of what they put into their counter proposal, which by the way, amounts to $1.5 trillion in new spending.”
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“They're making trips to all their rural hospitals in their district to help them navigate and access this fund that Chuck Schumer is trying…”
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“We have ideas and plans to do that, to fix the COVID level madness and adjust Obamacare so that it works for more people.”
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“We passed our bill. We did the job to keep the government open.”
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“Flood insurance policies cannot be renewed or purchased right now because Chuck Schumer is playing political games.”
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“People with autoimmune deficiencies who are also disabled, they cannot go visit the doctor's office.”
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“We need a handful of Democrats to stop the madness, reopen the government.”
Livestream: Speaker Johnson Shutdown Press Conference Day 6 | Uploaded October 6, 2025 | 31:57-32:02
“We passed the bill in bipartisan fashion and sent it over to the Senate.”
Livestream: Speaker Johnson Shutdown Press Conference Day 6 | Uploaded October 6, 2025 | 32:55-33:01
“Democrats themselves have voted on [the funding measure] over and over and over. Chuck Schumer, they voted on it 13 times during the Biden…”
Livestream: Speaker Johnson Shutdown Press Conference Day 6 | Uploaded October 6, 2025 | 35:34-35:41
“I didn't add a single Republican policy or priority or preference to the CR. It is 100% totally clean.”
Livestream: Speaker Johnson Shutdown Press Conference Day 6 | Uploaded October 6, 2025 | 36:33-36:42
“It is an exact status quo replica of what we're doing right now, which again is Biden era policies and spending levels.”
Livestream: Speaker Johnson Shutdown Press Conference Day 6 | Uploaded October 6, 2025 | 36:41-36:50
“We are responsible. We're not going to shut the government down for people who desperately need these services.”
Livestream: Speaker Johnson Shutdown Press Conference Day 6 | Uploaded October 6, 2025 | 36:54-37:00
“People are starting to recognize this is not a Republican shutdown. It is a Schumer Democrat shutdown.”
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