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Mike Johnson: “The Coast Guard [is] not getting paychecks right now.”

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

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Speaker Johnson speaks amid DHS funding lapse

Published | Video Starts at 01:06

You're talking about fema. Do you know that our disaster relief funds are being depleted right now? You're talking about tsa, you're talking about The Coast Guard [is] not getting paychecks right now. And that's why we have all this calamity and all of this danger. So the question for the Democrats right now is it's a serious question. (01:06–01:09)

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