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Mike Johnson: “It's exactly what Chuck Schumer voted on last March.”

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

Speaker Johnson Joins The Lead with Jake Tapper on CNN

Published October 16, 2025 | Video Starts at 04:08

We sent over a totally clean cr. And I can't emphasize this enough, we did not put any Republican partisan priorities on that bill when we sent it over from the House. It's exactly what Chuck Schumer voted on last March. And it's the exact same thing they've done their entire careers and gave impassioned speeches that we should do because they said, and Chuck Schumer said himself as recently as … (04:08–04:12)

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Asserts that the continuing resolution is the same as what Chuck Schumer voted on in March.

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