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Mike Johnson: “This is the first time in history that any party has chosen…”

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

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Speaker Johnson Joins Cheryl Casone on Fox Business

Published | Video Starts at 01:39

And they want to spend billions of dollars overseas on all sorts of extraneous crazy kinds of programs. They know we're not going to do that. It's not a serious proposal. This is the first time in history that any party has chosen to shut the government down over a clean cr. They're playing a game and it's very simple. Here's the reason why. Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries, the two leaders in both chambers for the Democrat side, are afraid of their far left flank. (01:39–01:47)

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Asserts that it is unprecedented for a party to shut down the government over a clean continuing resolution.

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