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Speaker Mike Johnson revealed that House Republicans can be back in session in 48 hours if Democrats will stop playing games, pass the clean GOP House-passed short-term funding bill, and then work together on the larger bill before the year is over.<\/p>\n

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During an interview on Fox Business, Johnson spoke about Senate Democrats voting on Monday to block a Republican-sponsored stopgap funding package for the 11th time as the shutdown enters its fourth week.<\/p>\n

Senators approved the House-passed bill by a vote of 50-43, which allocates funding for the government until November 21. Democratic Senator Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada and Independent Senator Angus King of Maine were the sole senators who deviated from party lines to support the bill\u2019s advancement. Senator John Fetterman (D-Pennsylvania) abstained from voting.<\/p>\n

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\u201cYeah, thank you so much for being here. We are in the fourth week of this shutdown and we\u2019ve got unpaid federal workers, families that rely on food programs. What do you say to those people, those Americans, why is the government still closed?\u201d host Cheryl Casone asked.<\/p>\n

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\u201cYeah. Those categories that are listed by Leader Thune and yourself and so many others, real Americans are hurting and it is so frustrating to us, Cheryl, because the contrast so is clear. Remember, it was over a month ago that the House did our job, we passed a clean continuing resolution, totally nonpartisan, 24-page, very simple piece of legislation to just keep the lights on so the Congress could continue to do the work of appropriating the funds for the annual budget, and also for navigating all the rest of the issues we have on the table throughout the end of the year,\u201d Johnson said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Democrats voted it down, they\u2019ve done it now almost a dozen times, as you said, because they\u2019re playing partisan games. They filed a counterproposal. Let\u2019s not let anybody forget what they filed as their counter-offer. Their CR is not a clean one, it\u2019s a dirty one, because they want to spend a trillion and a half new dollars on all sorts of wasteful programs, including 200 billion dollars to fund healthcare benefits on the backs of American taxpayers for illegal aliens,\u201d Johnson added.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThey want to give a half a billion dollars back to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to prop up leftist news organizations, and they want to spend billions of dollars overseas on all sorts of extraneous, crazy kinds of programs. They know we\u2019re not going that,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n

Johnson declared, \u201cIt is not a serious proposal. This is the first time in history that any party has chosen to shut the government down over a clean CR. They are playing a game, and it\u2019s very simple \u2014 here\u2019s the reason why. Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries, the two leaders in both chambers for the Democratic side, are afraid of their far-left flank, they\u2019re afraid they\u2019re going to get a challenge in New York because Marxism is all the rage, and they\u2019re going to lose their seats, so they\u2019re putting up a fight. It makes no sens,e and real people are getting hurt.\u201d<\/p>\n

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