House Speaker Mike Johnson

I mean, you look at things like nuclear deterrence.

Those programs are stalled right now, right?

And every day you do that, it has real-world consequences for us.

Not a game, and we need to end it right now.

Look, the devil's in the details, but I don't know how they could possibly alter it.

We made it so simple.

Again, there's nothing to take off of that.

It is virtually identical to what Chuck Schumer himself championed in March of this year.

And so we're not going to strap on extraneous policy issues and all of that that would take a long time because the government's now closed down.

They need to pass the clean CR, turn the lights back on, and get everybody back to work.

I'm just so frustrated with the nonsense around this.

And I think more and more people at home are as well.

I saw a Rasmussen poll that came out a couple of hours ago.

Forty-nine percent of the American people were polled, said the Democrats did this to give benefits to illegal aliens.

They are not wrong.

Two hundred billion dollars in their counterproposal would pay illegal aliens the benefits that hard-earned, hard-working American taxpayers provide.

We're not doing that.

We're not going to add a trillion and a half new dollars to spending.

We're not taking Chuck Schumer's ridiculous counterproposal.

We're going to do the right thing for the people, and the Republicans are on the job to do it.