#speaker johnson

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'The American flag lying in the dirt could not be more symbolic.' 🥺

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They will never acknowledge the call is coming from inside the house

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Trump Weird News - Speaker, Anything To Say For Yourself?

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Mike Johnson is warning the country that if Democrats take back the House, Trump's presidency will effectively end.

Don't threaten me with a good time!

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JUST NOW: A furious Speaker Mike Johnson confirmed that 1.4 MILLION federal workers have now missed a full paycheck — and many are turning to food banks — all because of Chuck Schumer and Senate Democrats.

Johnson blasted Democrats for “trying to distract people from the simple truth” — that it’s Schumer’s shutdown, not the GOP’s.

Speaker Johnson: "The anxiety of so many hardworking people around this country is very real, and it gets worse with each passing day. Here are some of the stats. Last week, 1.4 million federal workers missed a full paycheck. Now you know many of them are furloughed and many more are deemed essential workers, those who are essential, for example, to keep the country safe—TSA agents we've discussed, and air traffic controllers, and border patrol, and of course our troops. But so many of them now are going without pay. The families of military service members and the air traffic controllers and so many of these others are now at very real risk of missing the paycheck at the end of this month.

The Trump administration has done everything possible to bend over backwards to try to find sources of funding within the federal government to be able to cover the bases, but it is getting more and more challenging with each day. Now, every Republican in Congress wants to stop this madness—desperately—and we have voted many times, over a dozen times, collectively thirteen times, to reopen the government, to keep it open and reopen it once the Democrats closed it. But here's the very simple and important fact that no one should forget. We have no ability—Republicans do not have the ability—to do this on our own. It's a simple math problem. We need Democrats to help. You need 60 votes in the Senate. We only have 53 Republicans. The Democrats are the ones voting repeatedly to shut down the government. But they're not opening it back up. They spend most of their time trying to distract the American people from the very simple truth.

So, I brought you a little visual aid here to just remind everybody what the simple facts are. Four simple facts here. The Democrats are required to open the government. They keep saying Republicans are in charge of government. We aren't, not in the Senate. Sixty votes control the Senate, not a bare majority. And so point number one: Democrat votes are required to open the government. Point number two: They refuse to do it. They have now voted twelve times to keep the government closed. And they'll have another chance today or tomorrow, maybe multiple times this week, and we'll see what they do. "

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