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Mike Johnson: “They want to spend one and a half trillion additional…”

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

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Speaker Johnson Joins the Moon Griffon Show

Published | Video Starts at 03:31

Unless you roll back the 50 billion DOL guys set aside for rural hospitals in red states. You know, unless you, unless you give a half a billion dollars to npr. Right, that's their demands. Among other things, They want to spend one and a half trillion additional dollars on a seven week, simple, clean stopgap funding measure. We're not doing it. We're not going to do that. So if they shut it down, it's going to be on the Democrats and they've got to make that decision by Wednesday. (03:31–03:38)

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Asserts that Democrats want to spend an additional $1.5 trillion on a stopgap funding measure.

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