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Mike Johnson: “Their position is they want to spend $1.5 trillion in your…”

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 14 of Government Shutdown

Published | Video Starts at 30:56

They're playing a game. We're not. The strategy is to do the right and obvious thing and keep the government moving for the people. Their position is this, Manu. Their position is they want to spend $1.5 trillion in your tax dollars to fund nonsense overseas. They want to give $200 billion to illegal aliens. We are not going to do that. We're not going to do it. The American people don't want us to do it. (30:56–31:02)

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Claims Senate Democrats want to spend $1.5 trillion on overseas initiatives.

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