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Mike Johnson: “Republicans weren't involved in that at all.”

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

Speaker Johnson condemns Democrat shutdown after Trump's Knesset speech

Published October 13, 2025 | Video Starts at 17:19

And by the way, it is the Democrats who created that subsidy who put the expiration date on it. The they did it all on their own. Republicans weren't involved in that at all. They put an end date on it because they knew that it was supposed to be related to Covid. And it's become a boondoggle. It's a subsidy for insurance companies. (17:19–17:22)

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Asserts that Republicans were not involved in creating the subsidy or setting its expiration date.

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“Republicans have voted over and over to reopen the government and end all this pain.”
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“Senate Democrats then voted that down.”
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“They want to spend one and a half trillion dollars in new taxpayer funded spending as a ransom for ending the shutdown.”
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