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Mike Johnson: “The bipartisan arrangement that was made between Democrats…”

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

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Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 35 of Government Shutdown

Published | Video Starts at 34:00

Yes, sir. If the Senate passes something, of course we'll come back. We're running out of clock. Obviously, we put seven weeks on the clock. That was the remember The bipartisan arrangement that was made between Democrats and Republicans in the House and the Senate in consultation with the Senate bipartisan, bicameral agreement that they needed seven more weeks on the clock. because once we got to the end of the fiscal year, September 30, there would be that much more time needed, they thought, they estimated, to finish the government funding appropriations process. (34:00–34:13)

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Asserts that a bipartisan agreement was made to extend the clock by seven weeks.

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