Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and other Democrats are “willfully misleading the American people” when they say Republicans are in control of ending the government shutdown, Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said Monday.
On the 13th day of what he termed the “Democrat government shutdown,” Johnson urged Senate Democrats to act responsibly and vote to reopen the government.
“Ending this shutdown is not a one-party exercise,” Johnson said during a press conference in the Rayburn Room of the U.S. Capitol. “Republicans do have control of Congress, but it still takes 60 votes to pass a funding bill in the Senate.
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