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Mike Johnson: “There's one question that Senate Democrats have to ask…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 03:13

… his own words for the last decades, saying that a shutdown would be dangerous and disastrous and reckless. And now he is the one leading his party off that cliff. There's one question that Senate Democrats have to ask today. How long are they going to allow Chuck Schumer to do this to them so that he himself can get political cover from the far left corner of his base? He believes he's going to get a challenge for the Senate from aoc. That's what changed his mind. That's what's driving this agenda, and it's harming real American people. (03:13–03:25)

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Asserts that Schumer's actions are politically motivated to appease the far left.

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