Mike Johnson: “They wanted us to add $500 million to prop up liberal news…”

“Democrats sent us a counter offer. 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.” (02:00–02:06)

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