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Mike Johnson: “We did work with the White House to get air traffic…”

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

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Speaker Johnson, House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 23 of Government Shutdown

Published | Video Starts at 33:32

And then absent congressional action, would you work with the White House to find a way to pay air traffic controllers during the shutdown? And where would you pull that money from? Well, let me answer the questions in reverse order. We did work with the White House to get air traffic controllers paid. It's called the clean CR. We passed it in the House September 19th. by my counts, 33 days ago in Spence City. Duffy just said that air traffic controllers are going to miss a picture. Yes, yes. They're trying to find. (33:32–33:39)

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Asserts that the House passed a clean Continuing Resolution (CR) on September 19th to pay air traffic controllers.

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