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Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 22 of Government Shutdown

Published October 22, 2025 | Video Starts at 02:02

And we received that mandate gratefully. We went immediately to work. So since the election in November, just in the last nine and a half months of this Congress, which began in January, Republicans have delivered incredible results for the American people. And we could stand up here and spend an hour going through just the bullet points and highlights of all that. But we put a few on the handy chart over here. (02:02–02:07)

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“This is now the second longest government shutdown of any kind ever in the history of our country.”
Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 22 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded October 22, 2025 | 00:14-00:20
“We cut hundreds of billions of dollars in fraud, waste and abuse from government.”
Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 22 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded October 22, 2025 | 02:32-02:38
“Democrats in Congress have voted 12 times to keep the government closed down.”
Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 22 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded October 22, 2025 | 03:51-03:57
“Democrats added $1.5 trillion in new spending [to their CR proposal].”
Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 22 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded October 22, 2025 | 04:52-04:57
“Democrats wanted to eliminate the $50 billion that Republicans got signed into law by President Trump on July 4th to prop up our rural…”
Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 22 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded October 22, 2025 | 05:22-05:33
“We passed the historic Working Families tax cut.”
Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 22 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded October 22, 2025 | 02:17-02:21
“We slashed taxes for hard working Americans geared for the lower and middle class earners.”
Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 22 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded October 22, 2025 | 02:26-02:32
“We solved the border crisis.”
Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 22 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded October 22, 2025 | 02:37-02:40
“We strengthened Medicaid, we improved health care access, and we lowered premiums with our legislation.”
Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 22 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded October 22, 2025 | 02:43-02:50
“We passed a clean, nonpartisan CR to keep the government open for the people.”
Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 22 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded October 22, 2025 | 03:08-03:13
“Democrats wrote [the Obamacare] bill. They passed it into law without a single Republican vote.”
Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 22 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded October 22, 2025 | 06:23-06:28
“Democrats are the ones who manufactured this entire situation without a single Republican vote.”
Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 22 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded October 22, 2025 | 07:08-07:14
“Chuck Schumer has been suggesting that four leaders should go into a smoke filled back room like they used to do in the old days and create…”
Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 22 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded October 22, 2025 | 07:38-07:46
“As soon as Chuck Schumer reopens the government, all of our members will have an opportunity to engage in the very important discussion of…”
Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 22 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded October 22, 2025 | 08:00-08:10
“When President Obama shut down the national park, parks and National Mall in 2013 is a real hardship for the American people.”
Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 22 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded October 22, 2025 | 08:53-09:01
“The Trump administration is trying to handle this differently. They've gone to great lengths as much as they can to protect Americans access…”
Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 22 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded October 22, 2025 | 09:00-09:08
“We're just simply trying to get the government open. And that's why the nonpartisan clean CR was the obvious vehicle to do that.”
Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 22 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded October 22, 2025 | 36:41-36:48
“The Democrats caused this shutdown.”
Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 22 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded October 22, 2025 | 37:53-37:56
“Some of the mainstream media outlets aren't even covering it right now.”
Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 22 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded October 22, 2025 | 38:05-38:09
“Harriet Hageman is one of the members of Congress from Wyoming, and she has lots of cattle ranchers and was articulating some of their…”
Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 22 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded October 22, 2025 | 38:58-39:09
“The date of November 21 was decided upon by the experts in the field, the appropriators themselves, in a bipartisan agreement.”
Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 22 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded October 22, 2025 | 40:39-40:48
“Some people wanted the CR to go all the way into the middle of next year.”
Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 22 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded October 22, 2025 | 40:53-40:56
“The White House has been renovated many times over the years.”
Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 22 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded October 22, 2025 | 42:11-42:14
“The British burned [the White House] down practically in 1814, and then they rebuilt it in the early 1820s.”
Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 22 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded October 22, 2025 | 42:17-42:24
“President Trump's going to add the greatest improvement to the White House in the history of the building since it was originally…”
Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 22 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded October 22, 2025 | 42:45-42:51
“He's using private funds to [add a ballroom to the White House].”
Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 22 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded October 22, 2025 | 43:02-43:05
“Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries are scared that they're going to lose their jobs.”
Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 22 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded October 22, 2025 | 43:15-43:19
“This was never about a solution on health care or anything else. This was about a spectacle.”
Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 22 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded October 22, 2025 | 43:37-43:43