Mike Johnson: “They wanted to add $1.4 trillion in new spending on a short…”

“Guess what they wanted to do instead of that, Kaylee? They wanted to give. Reinstate giving free health care to illegal aliens. They wanted us to add $500 million to prop up liberal news organizations. They wanted to add $1.4 trillion in new spending on a short gap, stopgap funding measure. And we're just not going to do that. We can't do that. And it looks like they're going to try to shut the government down.” (02:05–02:14)

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