Speaker Mike Johnson on Sunday rejected polls blaming President Donald Trump for the ongoing government shutdown, insisting that Democrats have “dug in their heels” to protect partisan spending while Republicans have repeatedly voted to reopen the government.
“We reject all of this,” the Louisiana Republican said on “Fox News Sunday.” “This isn’t about winning a political contest here. Real people are losing.”
Democrats, Johnson added, “have voted 14 times now to keep the government closed — to block SNAP benefits, to prevent paying the troops.”
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