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Mike Johnson: “The simplest way to do this, the best way to get all those…”

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Speaker Johnson Joins the KEEL Morning Show with Mike & McCarty

Published October 30, 2025 | Video Starts at 10:57

I mean, I'm not the happy warrior right now. They're calling me Mad Mike at the press conferences. But I am angry about it. Because The simplest way to do this, the best way to get all those benefits returned and restored the programs, is for the Democrat shutdown to end. And we just need five or six more Democrats in the Senate, the centrist Democrats, to just come to their senses, defy their own leadership. (10:57–11:06)

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Asserts that ending the Democrat shutdown is the best way to restore benefits and programs.

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