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Speaker Johnson, House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 23 of Government Shutdown

Published October 23, 2025 | Video Starts at 06:58

He has an extraordinary team. We have extraordinary air traffic controllers in this country, and they are maintaining the safety against incredible odds. But right now, There are 13,000 air traffic controllers and more than 50,000 TSA officers who are showing up to work without pay. Secretary Duffy is doing a great job to triage this, but he noted that normally just 5% of flight delays are the result of staffing shortages. (06:58–07:06)

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“Normally just 5% of flight delays are the result of staffing shortages. Right now, that number at least a days ago was 53%.”
Speaker Johnson, House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 23 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded October 23, 2025 | 07:10-07:19
“According to online flight tracking databases, there were 19,000 delayed flights from Saturday to Monday and an additional 1600 canceled…”
Speaker Johnson, House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 23 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded October 23, 2025 | 07:19-07:31
“Democrats are working overtime to try to hide those facts and to try to distract from the very simple truth here.”
Speaker Johnson, House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 23 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded October 23, 2025 | 01:01-01:10
“They want you to forget that just five Senate Democrats could reopen the government today.”
Speaker Johnson, House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 23 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded October 23, 2025 | 01:09-01:16
“Their counter proposal deal doesn't reinstate free health care for illegal aliens, $200 billion of taxpayer funds.”
Speaker Johnson, House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 23 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded October 23, 2025 | 01:17-01:29
“Their counter proposal would not send billions of dollars in wasteful spending for social projects in foreign countries overseas.”
Speaker Johnson, House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 23 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded October 23, 2025 | 01:29-01:38
“Democrats would not have shut the government down this time if their political careers did not depend on it.”
Speaker Johnson, House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 23 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded October 23, 2025 | 01:59-02:07
“Democrats know that millions of federal workers are desperate for their paychecks.”
Speaker Johnson, House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 23 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded October 23, 2025 | 02:43-02:49
“They know that thousands of flights have been delayed.”
Speaker Johnson, House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 23 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded October 23, 2025 | 02:48-02:52
“They know that SNAP benefits and nutrition assistance for women, infants and children are in jeopardy for millions of American families.”
Speaker Johnson, House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 23 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded October 23, 2025 | 02:51-02:59
“Chuck Schumer himself said infamously, every day of the shutdown gets better for us, meaning the Democrats.”
Speaker Johnson, House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 23 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded October 23, 2025 | 04:00-04:07
“As long as they can force a trillion and a half new dollars in spending on America and get illegal aliens back on health care funded by US…”
Speaker Johnson, House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 23 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded October 23, 2025 | 04:24-04:34
“Air traffic controllers, some people call the policemen of our skies. They have been showing up at work without pay.”
Speaker Johnson, House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 23 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded October 23, 2025 | 05:07-05:14
“That number is only going to increase as the Democrat shutdown continues, especially as air traffic controllers are set to miss another…”
Speaker Johnson, House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 23 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded October 23, 2025 | 07:30-07:39
“They own the shutdown and they own the consequences too.”
Speaker Johnson, House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 23 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded October 23, 2025 | 08:06-08:09
“We did work with the White House to get air traffic controllers paid. It's called the clean CR. We passed it in the House September 19th.”
Speaker Johnson, House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 23 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded October 23, 2025 | 33:32-33:39
“Every Republican has voted repeatedly to do that very thing, to pay everyone and make all this madness stop.”
Speaker Johnson, House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 23 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded October 23, 2025 | 34:20-34:28
“The Democrats have now voted 13 times to keep the government closed.”
Speaker Johnson, House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 23 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded October 23, 2025 | 34:27-34:31
“We are told that the Democrats have vowed to vote no on that measure. So they will not vote today.”
Speaker Johnson, House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 23 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded October 23, 2025 | 34:47-34:54
“We passed the CR to get everybody. If I brought everybody back right now and we voted on a measure to do this to pay essential workers, it…”
Speaker Johnson, House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 23 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded October 23, 2025 | 35:37-35:48
“The original CR was going to extend and allow seven additional weeks for us to finish the appropriations process to November 21st.”
Speaker Johnson, House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 23 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded October 23, 2025 | 36:14-36:22
“Appropriators are working right now even though we're not on the House floor and they're preparing the next batch of bills.”
Speaker Johnson, House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 23 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded October 23, 2025 | 36:33-36:39
“Every single Democrat in the Senate... have given impassioned speeches... where they say that this should never happen, that you shouldn't…”
Speaker Johnson, House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 23 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded October 23, 2025 | 37:06-37:19
“Louisiana and a lot of other states have warned SNAP recipients they won't get benefits next month.”
Speaker Johnson, House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 23 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded October 23, 2025 | 37:43-37:52
“You're talking about, I think it's 42 or 43 million Americans rely upon that vital service [SNAP].”
Speaker Johnson, House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 23 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded October 23, 2025 | 37:51-38:00
“Republicans have now voted 13 times to open your government. The Democrats have voted 13 times to close, close it.”
Speaker Johnson, House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 23 of Government Shutdown | Uploaded October 23, 2025 | 38:24-38:33