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Mike Johnson: “This was a December 31st policy issue that was going to be…”

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

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Speaker Johnson: This is ABSURD!

Published | Video Starts at 07:40

Very ironic, isn't it, John, you pointed out the exact fact about all this that, that the media and the Democrats are trying to obscure. This was a December 31st policy issue that was going to be debated and decided in October and November. That was always the case. They bootstrapped it and tried to pretend it had something to do with the September stopgap measure to keep the government operating so that we could have those debates. (07:40–07:47)

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