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Mike Johnson: “We do have to extend the flood insurance program, you know…”

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

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Livestream: Speaker Johnson Shutdown Press Conference Day 7

Published | Video Starts at 14:37

There's a lot of things on the table. FEMA has sufficient resources right now to do that. We do have to extend the flood insurance program, you know, annually, effectively, to make sure that it's there. But we'll do that. We'll do it in due course. There's a lot of end of year issues that are being conflated with this very simple issue of keeping the government open. (14:37–14:43)

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