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Mike Johnson: “Senate Democrats to stop that and shut down the government.”

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

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Speaker Johnson Joins on Balance with Leland Vittert on NewsNation

Published | Video Starts at 01:21

The issue of the day is keeping the government open so that services can continue for the American people and we can do our work. Here they are voting repeatedly now, five times, Senate Democrats to stop that and shut down the government. There are plans, there are discussions about handling all those issues. But. But that's for later in the year. We have three months before those subsidies expire on December 31st. (01:21–01:25)

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Asserts that Senate Democrats are responsible for the government shutdown.

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