Speaker Johnson ‘very relieved’ after vote to end government shutdown passes

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US Speaker of the House Mike Johnson said Wednesday he was relieved to see the end of the longest government shutdown in history, saying the Democrats used the “American people as leverage in this political game.”

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00:00Well, good evening, everybody.

00:17We feel very relieved tonight.

00:19The Democrat shutdown is finally over thanks to House and Senate Republicans who stood

00:24together to get the job done.

00:26Absolutely no question in anybody's mind now that the Democrats were responsible for

00:30this.

00:31What happened?

00:32Millions of American families went without food on their table.

00:35You had millions of Americans stranded in airports with their flights canceled and delayed.

00:40You had troops and federal employees wondering where their next paycheck would come from.

00:45The Democrats openly admitted, they openly admitted, many of them said it in their own

00:49words that they used the American people as leverage in this political game.

00:54They knew that it would cause that pain to the people, and they did it anyway.

00:58They did it for their own selfish purposes, their political purposes, and it was a game

01:03they played with real people's lives.

01:06It's something that is very difficult to forgive.

01:09I want to say that all this was utterly pointless and foolish.

01:14This outcome was totally foreseeable.

01:17I said that this would be the outcome when all this began back in mid-September.

01:21They did it anyway.

01:23The Democrats admitted that they used the people as leverage, and they got nothing for their

01:26selfish political stunt here.

01:29They didn't achieve anything with this at all.

01:32I'm proud of that achievement, but I'm really sad that it took us so long to get here.

01:37It was so much pain that had to be endured to get to this point.

01:40Voters are going to remember which political party played games with their lives.

01:46And I said, as soon as the government was open, we would turn our attention to healthcare and

01:51all the other issues that are out there.

01:52We are willing to work and have always been willing to work in good faith with anybody

01:56in this building who wants to bring down the cost of healthcare.

02:01So I want to say that there's a reason the Democrats are in disarray right now.

02:04There's a reason they don't have an identified leader of their party.

02:07There's a reason that their favorability, even amongst those in their own party, is the lowest

02:11of all time.

02:12They don't have a platform, a principle they can defend.

02:15They don't have a leader, except for Mondami, who's the new mayor of New York City and leading

02:19the party into Marxism and Socialism.

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