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Mike Johnson: “They want to give health care paid for by taxpayers…”

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

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Speaker Johnson Joins CBS Mornings

Published | Video Starts at 03:52

The Democrats have made a wild series of counter demands. What they're demanding is to spend 1.5 trillion additional dollars for a seven week stopgap funding measure. We can't do that. They want to give health care paid for by taxpayers, hardworking Americans to illegal aliens. We are not going to do that. They want to give a half a billion dollars back for left leaning organizations paid for by taxpayers. We're not doing that. (03:52–03:58)

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Asserts that Democrats want to provide taxpayer-funded healthcare to illegal aliens.

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