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Mike Johnson: “The easiest way to get full SNAP payments to everybody who…”

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 34 of Government Shutdown

Published | Video Starts at 24:14

We just don't know how. It's unprecedented. This has never happened before in this way, and so we're hopeful. But I would just say this, looping us back to how we began. The easiest way to get full SNAP payments to everybody who is eligible is for the Democrats to come in here and vote to reopen the government on a clean, nonpartisan cr. It's a game that's being played and real people are being hurt. And the administration gets all sorts of accolades and appreciation from us for bending over backwards trying to … (24:14–24:24)

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Asserts that reopening the government with a clean continuing resolution is the simplest way to resume full SNAP payments.

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