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Speaker of the House Mike Johnson said Monday that Democrats bear the blame for the pain of a government shutdown, as President Donald Trump and his budget chief moved forward with identifying federal programs to cut.<\/p>\n

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\u201cDay 27 means it\u2019s almost been a full month since the Democrats shut down the government. And as we near the end of this month, the pain being felt by so many hard-working people around this country is very real and it gets worse with each passing day. Here\u2019s 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,\u201d Johnson said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose who are essential, for example, to keep the country safe \u2014 TSA agents we\u2019ve 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 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,\u201d Johnson added.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe 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,\u201d Johnson argued.<\/p>\n

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The Speaker added, \u201cNow, every Republican in Congress wants to stop this Madness desperately. And we have voted many times, over a dozen times, collectively 13 times to reopen the government, to keep it open and reopen it once the Democrats closed it. But here\u2019s 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\u2019s a simple math problem. We need Democrats to help. You need 60 votes in the Senate. We only have 53 Republicans.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Democrats are the ones voting repeatedly to shut down the government. But they\u2019re not they\u2019re not opening it back up,\u201d Johnson declared.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThey spent 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,\u201d Johnson argued.<\/p>\n

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