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Mike Johnson: “Their initial counter proposal to spend a trillion and a…”

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

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Speaker Johnson Joins All Things with Kim Strassel (Wall Street Journal)

Published | Video Starts at 13:34

So the Democrats, they don't have a leader, they don't have a platform, they have no policies they can articulate and they don't, they aren't even able to say what they want to get out of the shutdown short of Their initial counter proposal to spend a trillion and a half new dollars and give $200 billion in health care to illegal aliens on the back of US Taxpayers. among other nonsense. They know we're not doing that. It wasn't serious. And so because they have none of that and because they know they're increasingly the American people are understanding what's going on here because we're so consistent and sharing the truth every day. (13:34–13:43)

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Asserts that Democrats proposed spending $1.5 trillion and providing $200 billion in healthcare to undocumented immigrants.

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