Name: Speaker Johnson calls shutdown pointless after House passes bill
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Description: House Speaker Mike Johnson addressed reporters on Wednesday night after the lower chamber voted to pass a Senate-backed funding package to end the 43-day government shutdown, the longest in U.S. history.

House Speaker Mike Johnson addressed reporters on Wednesday night after the lower chamber voted to pass a Senate-backed funding package to end the 43-day government shutdown, the longest in U.S. history.

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The U.S. House of Representatives has voted to end the government shutdown, with Speaker Mike Johnson addressing the press shortly after the bill's passage. Johnson attributed the shutdown to Democratic actions, describing it as a 'pointless' and 'foolish' political maneuver that caused hardship for millions of Americans, including families, travelers, and federal employees.

Johnson highlighted that the continuing resolution passed by Republicans was nonpartisan and intended to keep the government running for seven more weeks, allowing Congress to resume regular appropriations. The bill, which passed with a vote of 222-209, now heads to the president's desk for signature, marking the end of the longest government shutdown in American history.

Speaker Johnson calls shutdown 'pointless' after House passes bill

We are following breaking news. House lawmakers have just voted to end the government shutdown right now. House Speaker Mike Johnson is speaking to the press after the shutdown bill passed. Let's take a listen. Very relieved tonight. The democrat shutdown is finally over thanks to House and Senate republicans who stood together to get the job done. Absolutely no question in anybody's mind now that the democrats were responsible for this. What happened? Millions of american families went without food on their table. You had millions of american stranded in airports, their flights canceled and delayed. You had troops and federal employees wondering where their next paycheck would come from. The democrats openly admitted they openly admitted many of them said it in their own words that they use the american people as leverage in this political game. They knew that it would cause that pain to the people and they did it anyway. They did it for their own selfish purposes, their political purposes and it was a game they played with real people's lives. It's it's something that is very difficult to forgive. I want to say that all this was was utterly pointless and foolish. This outcome was totally foreseeable. I said that this would be the outcome when all this began back in mid september. They did it anyway. Democrats admitted that they use the people's leverage and they got nothing for their selfish political stunt here. They didn't achieve anything with this at all. And anyone who studied history would know that shutdowns never yield any positive result. It just hurts people. I said on the House floor a little while ago that we did all this in good faith from the very beginning. I was insistent about this. Our leadership team was the republicans did the right thing. We had a non partisan continuing resolution. We didn't have any republican priorities on it at all. We just said in good faith, let's keep the lights on, let's keep this going for another seven weeks so that the Congress can do its work so they can get back to the regular appropriations process the way that it is supposed to be done for the people. So there were good stewards with their with their money that hasn't been done here in a long time. And we said we want to get back to that. Now I'm pleased that tonight on the C. R. We had three appropriations bills that we've now will send over to the president's desk in just a short amount of time tonight to get signed into law. That that's an innovation too. As you all know, it's been years since Congress actually did separate appropriations bills. I'm proud of that achievement, but I'm I'm really sad that it took us so long to get here. It was so much pain that had to be endured to get to this point. Voters are going to remember which political party played games with their lives. They're going to remember that they did this for their own selfish purposes so that they could look tough to the radical elements of their base and real people suffered because of that game. So now that we've got the lights back on, we've got the government reopened. The president will sign that triumphantly tonight and Republicans will get right back to the work that we promised the American people that we will do. We're going to deliver for the American people as we have been doing. I'll leave you with this thought. There's a split screen in America right now. There's a split screen on one side of the screen. You have President Trump and the Republican majorities in the Congress and the Senate in the House doing the work for the American people. Look what we've achieved in the 1st 10 months of this year. It's you can make an argument that it's the most productive season for a new Congress and new presidency, a new administration, at least in the modern era, maybe of all time. It just it just in this short amount of months, we got the border secured. We fulfilled that promise. We are working on the crime crisis around the country. We have new trade agreements. We have a return to American energy dominance. We have cut taxes, the largest tax cut in U. S. History. In a literal sense, we're cutting regulations were ending fraud, waste and abuse out of government. We're shoring up the same House Speaker Mike Johnson there live on Capitol Hill, speaking to the press just moments after the House voted to end the government shutdown. The yeas were 2 22. The nays were 209. Speaker Johnson largely blamed the Democrats for the shutdown, calling it a selfish political stunt. That bill now heads to the president's desk, where he is expected to sign it later on this evening. This bill would fund the government and the longest shutdown in American history.

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