House Speaker Mike Johnson said Sunday that Democrats are deliberately dragging out the government shutdown for political cover while trying to shift blame to Republicans.
He argued that Republicans have already passed measures to keep the government open and pay federal workers.
“They are trying their best to distract the American people from the simple fact they’ve chosen a partisan fight so they can prove to their Marxist-rising base in the Democrat Party that they are willing to fight Trump and Republicans,” Johnson said on “Fox News Sunday.”
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