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Mike Johnson: “The reason the government is closed is because Chuck Schumer…”

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

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Speaker Johnson Joins NBC's Meet the Press

Published | Video Starts at 01:47

How do you respond? It's totally absurd. This has nothing to do with that. It's another red herring. The reason the government is closed is because Chuck Schumer and 43 of his Democrat colleagues in the Senate have decided now to vote multiple times to keep the government closed. We need them to turn the lights back on so that everyone can do their work. The House did our work. We passed a bipartisan, clean continuing resolution to keep the government open. (01:47–01:57)

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Asserts that Chuck Schumer and 43 Senate Democrats voted multiple times to keep the government closed.

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