Speaker Johnson on Shutdown: Democrats Have A Lot To Answer For, “Just Never Forget”
House Speaker Mike Johnson spoke with reporters at the Capitol on Wednesday, saying, “we believe the long national nightmare will be over tonight.”
SPEAKER MIKE JOHNSON: We believe the long national nightmare will be over tonight. It was completely and utterly foolish and pointless in the end, as we said all along. I just want to apologize to any Americans who are out there who still have flight cancellations or delays today. I want to apologize to the many American families who were made to go hungry over the last several weeks. Our troops and other federal employees who are wondering where their next paycheck would come from. All of that’s on the Democrats. Just never forget. They voted 15 times between the House and the Senate to close your government. And the Republicans tried every single day of the shutdown to open it. We voted 15 times to do that. They have a lot to answer for. And I just want to say that we’re very optimistic about the vote tally tonight. We think this is going to happen, and we’re sorry that it took this long. So Republicans are going to deliver for the people. We’re ready to get back to our legislative agenda. We have a very aggressive calendar for the remainder of this year. There will be some long days and nights here, some long working weeks, but we will get this thing back on track. So thank you all.
