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Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 14 of Government Shutdown

Published October 14, 2025 | Video Starts at 03:10

As we've explained at this podium every day of the shutdown today, Senate Democrats will have their eighth chance to end this mess by passing our clean non partisan continuing resolution, The House passed [the government funding bill] over three weeks ago. the House passed that bill and you all know the details of it. It is completely clean. There are no policy changes, no partisan riders, no gimmicks or tricks at all. (03:10–03:14)

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“President Trump is welcoming home now the last of the hostages who've endured two years in Hamas captivity.”
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“They would send a half a billion dollars to liberal news outlets by refunding the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.”
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“Chuck Schumer supported CRS to help avert a government shutdown 29 out of 30 times as leader of his party.”
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“They want to give $200 billion to illegal aliens.”
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“All of the [Epstein] files were in the possession of the Biden Harris Department of Justice for four years.”
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“As soon as the election was held in November in the United States, Hamas began to treat [the hostages] much better.”
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“He [Chuck Schumer] emphatically supported every single CR enacted into law since 2017, except for one.”
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“Hamas was counting on Kamala Harris to win and not President Donald J. Trump.”
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“President Trump has delivered [peace in the Middle East].”
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“We're going to embark upon a project together to rally speakers and presidents of parliaments around the world so that we will jointly…”
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“No one has ever deserved that prize more, and that is an objective fact.”
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“Welcome to day 14 of the Democrat government shutdown.”
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“Senate Democrats will have their eighth chance to end this mess by passing our clean non-partisan continuing resolution.”
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“Democrats' counter proposal includes $1.5 trillion in new spending paid for by American taxpayers.”
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“Their counter proposal would reverse common sense reforms that Republicans made in the working families tax cut that keep illegal aliens off…”
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“Their counter proposal would cost taxpayers nearly $200 billion.”
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“Their counter proposal would make permanent Covid era Obamacare subsidies without any income caps or any other reforms at all.”
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“That would cost taxpayers an estimated $358 billion.”
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“They would repeal the $50 billion that we put into the law to support rural hospitals.”
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“It would also restore up to $5 billion of American taxpayer funds for wasteful spending for international projects.”
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“They want to spend 24.6 million of your hard earned dollars as a taxpayer for climate resilience in Honduras.”
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“They want to spend 13.4 million for civic engagement in Zimbabwe.”
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“They want to send 3.9 million for LGBTQI plus democracy grants in the western Balkans.”
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“For the first time since 2019, both chambers, House and Senate, have made real progress towards [the appropriations process] stewardship…”
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“Republicans and Democrats were already engaged in responsible, open, bipartisan processes to find answers to these problems.”
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“Chuck Schumer has been in Congress since 1980.”
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“We did not load up the temporary funding bill with any Republican priorities or partisan priorities at all.”
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“Their position is they want to spend $1.5 trillion in your tax dollars to fund nonsense overseas.”
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“There's as many as a thousand victims estimated. That's what the victims say.”
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“34,000 documents so far, and more on the way.”
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“As soon as Chuck Schumer opens the government, as soon as Mark Kelly and Senator Gallegos, the two senators from Arizona, Ms. Grahava's…”
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“I've not seen them cross the line yet and that we have committees that are jurisdiction who have that responsibility.”
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“It's not risen to the level of Congress yet, but we're watching that closely.”
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“My understanding to this is they have every right to move the funds around. Duly appropriated dollars from Congress to the Department of…”
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“Republicans have voted in Congress eight times now between House and Senate to fund the troops and pay federal workers.”
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“Meanwhile, the Democrats voted eight times to block their paychecks.”
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