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Mike Johnson: “We passed the CR to get everybody. If I brought everybody…”

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 35:37

But you know as well as I do, sometimes when one body lose Something keep the exemption? Well, no, I don't know that. We just demonstrated it's not true. Chad. We passed the CR to get everybody. If I brought everybody back right now and we voted on a measure to do this to pay essential workers, it would be spiked in the Senate. They're going to show you this afternoon that they would spike that bill. So it would be a waste of our time and it would take the pressure off Chuck Schumer to get his job done and open the government again. (35:37–35:48)

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