House Speaker Mike Johnson

They refuse to do it because, again, they want to show a fight because they can't stand President Trump.

That's what this is.

And in the meantime, American people are being used as pawns in this game.

And it is so frustrating to us.

I think it's shameful.

I think it's immoral for them to do what they're doing right now.

Look, I am a good faith operator.

I am a negotiator.

I like to find common ground.

Here's the problem.

Because we were operating in good faith and doing the most basic, simple thing, I mean the bare minimum piece of legislation to keep the lights on, I literally don't have anything to negotiate on the CR.

I can't go into that document and say, oh, let me pull off these Republican priorities and see if we can get some more Democrats to vote on it.

I don't have anything to pull off of it.

I sent over a clean, continued resolution.

And by the way, very important, it continues Biden era policies and spending, which we conservatives don't like.

We're trying to change that, but we need the appropriations process to finish it.

All we needed was seven more weeks on the clock to finish the process.

And the Republicans and Democrats who are appropriators are the ones that decided that date and decided it should be clean.

And everything was going smoothly until Chuck Schumer decided to blow it up.

Is he going to fold?