Mike Johnson: “We run out of clock because the end of this September 30th…”

“Those bills don't match up exactly. So there's a conference committee between two chambers working as they're supposed to for the first time since 2019. But here's the problem. We run out of clock because the end of this September 30th is the end of the fiscal year. So what we did was a simple, clean continuing resolution is 24 pages in length. All it does is keep the government open so appropriators can continue to do this work together.” (01:30–01:36)

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