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Mike Johnson: “The Schumer shutdown was never about health care.”

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 07:44

That is a false claim and everybody knows it. Everyone in America and certainly everybody in this room understands that this is about something else. What this is about is about fear. The Schumer shutdown was never about health care. That's a distraction. It's a red herring as we used to say in debate club. Okay? This is about fear. And what is the fear? (07:44–07:47)

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Asserts that the government shutdown was not about health care.

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