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Mike Johnson: “This is a clean, non partisan CR. It does not include new…”

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Speaker Johnson Gives Press Conference Remarks on Day 13 of Government Shutdown

Published October 13, 2025 | Video Starts at 04:58

Not our talking points. This is in the record and they filed it. No matter how they twist it, This is a clean, non partisan CR. It does not include new spending. It does not include partisan strings attached at all. And this is something as we have pointed out over and over, the Democrats have supported repeatedly, in fact 13 different times during the Biden administration. (04:58–05:06)

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Asserts that the continuing resolution proposed by Republicans is clean and non-partisan.

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