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And President Trump suggested the standoff could open the door, he says, for big changes in the federal workforce. Senate lawmakers missed the deadline at midnight to approve a very simple budget for the fiscal year 2025, according now to FOX News, the short term funding extension that passed the House earlier in September, keeping the government running through November 21st. But bipartisan talks collapse when the Democrats said, no, we want to hold you hostage and we demand that you spend on things like health care for illegal immigrants. Now, in the hours leading up to the shutdown, President Trump made it very clear that while he did not want the government to close, he saw opportunities, quote, unquote, in the crisis, saying, quote, we don't want it to shut down because we have the greatest period of time ever. I tell you, we have 17 trillion being invested. So the last person that wanted to shut down is us. He then added, now, with that being said, we can do things during the shutdown that are irreversible, that are bad for them, referring to Democrats and irreversible by them, like cutting vast numbers of people out, cutting things that they like, cutting programs that they like. Referring to the Democrats now, Trump has repeatedly warned and pushed to reduce the size of government and slash federal programs. He says that waste your tax dollars. A shutdown does not grant new powers to the White House, but it does give the executive branch wide discretion over what services continue to operate. The standoff has turned into a battle of blame. Democrats going to TV saying this is all Trump's fault. But the problem is some Democrats didn't get the memo to lie. They told the truth, that they are, in fact shutting down the government. Democrats can accuse Republicans all they want of hijacking the process and falsely lying, claiming that they wanted to provide taxpayer funded health benefits only for Americans when it's in black and white. They wanted taxpayer funded health benefits for all illegal immigrants. Chuck Schumer said Tuesday, quote, they say that undocumented people are going to get these credits. That is absolutely false. This is one of the big lies that they're telling you. Well, you look at the Office of Budget Management and they made it very clear the Democrats are spending massive amounts of money if they got their way on illegal immigrant health care. Which brings me to Speaker Johnson on the government shutdown. Going back and reminding the American people of what really happened. Said the lies the Democrats and many in the media are telling. Take a listen to speaker on Fox News members then it's going to be hard to get this resolved. All along Republicans wanted to shut the government down. Well, we do have the House speaker with us here in the studio tonight. Let's welcome in Mike Johnson, Louisiana. Good to see you, sir. Thank you for taking the time. I know that you have been very busy today. Busy day. Those clips are hilarious to me. The House did its job. The House Republicans did our job. It's been over two weeks. We passed that continuing resolution. It's clean, it's simple. It's 24 pages in length. We were simply trying to buy time. And this is really important for everybody to remember. John, the reason we're doing this is that the appropriators are trying to rebuild the muscle memory to do appropriations to spend taxpayer dollars responsibly. And that takes 12 separate approach bills. We were doing that working through the process. We ran out of time. We need seven more weeks. So we put a clean CR on the, on the table assuming that everybody, all the Democrats would do the right thing. They've rejected it now three times. As of today, the Senate Democrats, 44 of them have voted that cr, the clean cr down and they proposed Chuck Schumer's version which is a dirty cr. Why do we say that? Because he wants to add $1.5 trillion in new spending to a seven week stopgap measure and they want to give health care to illegal aliens, claw back the funds that we put in for rural hospitals and all sorts of other mayhem. We can't do that. We're just not going to do it. You listen to Speaker Johnson. The House Republicans did our job passing the CR over two weeks ago simply trying to buy time. The appropriators are trying to rebuild the muscle memory to do appropriations to spend taxpayers dollars responsively instead of irrationally and radical, which is what the Democrats wanted. And here is what the speaker had to say about some of the money, including health care for illegals, that we're just not going to do it. So this is the real point of contention here. I mean, obviously they want to restore some of the cuts that were enacted in the big beautiful bill when it comes to Medicaid funding, etc. But Democrats insist our bill does not provide federal dollars for health care for illegal immigrants. And you say what? I say they obviously have not read their bill. This counter proposal that he filed, everybody can Google it. Go pull it up. It's on the Senate's website and in the legislative text. Go to page 57 of Chuck Schumer's bill and look at section 2141. It says right there in plain language they want to repeal the health provisions of the one big beautiful bill. I do, I do part ways with you here on this idea of plain language. I read that whole section. It might as well be written in Mandarin. And that's probably why the Democrats don't understand what they filed. But if you interpret that and you get through all the subsections, what you realize is they're trying to take out the, in its entirety, the reforms that we put into the big beautiful bill pertaining to health. And why is that so important? Because what we did was we strengthened the Medicaid program by making sure that ineligible recipients are not on the rolls. The CBO, the Congressional Budget Office on August 25th published a letter and they said this is going to do exactly what Republicans said. They estimate that 2.3 million illegal recipients for Medicaid will be pushed off the rolls because of our reforms and that it's going to save $185 billion of taxpayer funds. So they want to return all those ineligible people back to the rolls and many of them are illegal aliens. That is a fact. And anybody who looks at it objectively has to say it's true. I love how calm the speaker is on this. He's trying to make it clear that this is all about the Democrats trying to slander and attack the Republicans doing the responsible thing. Just to put it in perspective, there were 17 different times the Republicans did not shut down the government when they had an opportunity to do it and instead went for a continuing resolution to make sure the government was open when the guy by the name of Joe Biden was President of the United States of America. Because Republicans understood that shutdowns are bad for the economy. Republicans understood that it was their job to protect the American people and also make sure that our government was functioning the right way. The Democrats shut down the government because President Trump and the Republicans will not force American taxpayers to pay for free health care for illegal aliens. America is $37 trillion in debt. We cannot afford to provide taxpayer funded free health care to illegals who broke the law to enter our country. 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