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Mike Johnson: “The Democrats counter proposal CR, the dirty CR we call it…”

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

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Speaker Johnson Gives Press Conference Remarks on Day 2 of Government Shutdown

Published | Video Starts at 08:01

This is just a few months ago. The bill was signed into law July 4th and we cut all of that out. Let me tell you what some of those things are. The Democrats counter proposal CR, the dirty CR we call it as opposed to the clean CR, would result in nearly $200 billion being spent on illegal aliens and other non citizens. Let me be specific. This is just a few of those, the reforms that we put in that they want to repeal and reverse. Number one, a provision that closes the California loophole. (08:01–08:11)

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