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Mike Johnson: “We didn't add it up with the Republican priorities or policy…”

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

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Speaker Johnson Joins All Things with Kim Strassel (Wall Street Journal)

Published | Video Starts at 01:53

It's the first time in history, Kim, that any party has had the audacity to shut down the government over a clean cr. And this is very important. We didn't add it up with the Republican priorities or policy riders or anything. I mean, it's just is 24 pages in length. It just says literally keep the lights open. Why? So that we could buy seven more weeks to November 21st to finish the House appropriations process. (01:53–01:57)

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Asserts that the continuing resolution did not include Republican priorities or policy riders.

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