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Mike Johnson: “We need 60 votes in the Senate. We only have 53 Republicans.”

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

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Speaker Johnson Joins John Solomon on Just the News

Published | Video Starts at 06:26

And we're pointing out the Obvious it is Chuck Schumer alone and 43 of his Senate Democrat colleagues who hold the keys to this. We need 60 votes in the Senate. We only have 53 Republicans. We have to have a few of them come along with us. You got this clean CR out early. There was plenty of time for this to get resolved, and obviously Democrats did it. (06:26–06:31)

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Asserts that 60 votes are needed in the Senate, and Republicans have 53.

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