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Mike Johnson: “We're not going to allow Chuck Schumer to hold the American…”

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

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Speaker Johnson Joins Squawk Box on CNBC

Published | Video Starts at 19:42

And Roe and I and others can sit around the table and, like I said, in a bipartisan manner and work through some of these things, and they're good ideas on the table. But we got to have everybody here doing that. And We're not going to allow Chuck Schumer to hold the American people hostage so they can get a trillion and a half new dollars in spending. Remember, don't get lost in that. That's what they filed in the record. That's what they are demanding in exchange for opening the government. And they know we can't do that. (19:42–19:49)

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Asserts that Chuck Schumer is demanding $1.5 trillion in new spending to open the government.

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