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Mike Lawler: “I've been leading on this issue. I'm the one actually trying…”

Featuring: Mike Lawler, Republican | U.S. House, New York, District 17

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GOP Rep. Mike Lawler calls Johnson decision to not hold ACA vote "idiotic"

Published | Video Starts at 06:17

Do you want to respond to that? No, they're not having a hard time. That's put forth by the Democrats trying to, you know, Astroturf everybody and Gaslight everybody. I've been leading on this issue. I'm the one actually trying to negotiate a bipartisan deal. Again, you can look back to my exchange with Hakeem Jeffries during the shutdown when I asked him to sign on to a clean one year extension and he refused. (06:17–06:23)

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