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Mike Johnson: “He would also repeal the $50 billion that Republicans put…”

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 26:32

It amounts to $192 billion. $192.8 billion. So almost $200 billion that Chuck Schumer wants to put back in. Also, by the way, while he's repealing our health subtitle, He would also repeal the $50 billion that Republicans put into the bill to support our rural hospitals. around the country. Why would Chuck Schumer do that? Because he's desperate for political cover. Let me, let me keep going on this. (26:32–26:41)

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Asserts that $50 billion was allocated to support rural hospitals, which would be repealed.

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“It amounts to $192 billion. $192.8 billion.”
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“Half the federal civilian workforce is effectively laid off right now, furloughed.”
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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.”
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“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.”
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“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…”
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“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.”
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“Republicans are the ones concerned about health care.”
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“Health care is broken in America. It's too expensive. The quality of care needs to rise.”
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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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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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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