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Mike Johnson: “If they shut the government down, it would be their…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 07:02

We certainly hope that Democrats will go along on that because if not, they really have no excuse. If they shut the government down, it would be their unilateral decision to do so. And when Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, says, as he did this weekend, now is the time for Russia sanctions, President Trump opened the door on tariffs against India and China as a way to create economic leverage to end the war in Ukraine. (07:02–07:06)

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Asserts that the decision to shut down the government would be unilateral by [the opposing party].

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