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Mike Johnson: “They want to give $200 billion in health benefits to illegal…”

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 27 of Government Shutdown

Published | Video Starts at 03:14

These are just four sub points there under, under fact number three. But there's many more. But among the things they're demanding, this is what the Democrats in the Senate are demanding. To reopen the government. They want to give $200 billion in health benefits to illegal aliens and non citizens paid for by US taxpayers. That is in their proposal. They want billions in wasteful programs to be returned to foreign countries. See, we stopped these things. They want to turn it all back on. (03:14–03:23)

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