Mike Johnson uses Dems’ own words against them in government shutdown warning

Republicans and Democrats continue to trade before the capabilities The government closing Next week, with both sides, they refer to that neither of them wants to budge from its federal financing.

Speaker Mike Johnson, R. La, released. A note earlier this week highlights the comments of the past years by Democrats in the Senate who warn of the risk of closing the government.

“Republicans in the House of Representatives acted last week responsibly to keep the government open with a constant decision in the short term,” Johnson Memorandum said.

“Democrats in the Senate, who are accustomed to warning that closing would harm the elderly, old warriors and working families, now threatening one unless the Congress abolishes the tax reduction of the working families, restores the health care of the taxpayers to illegal foreigners, and sends half a billion dollars to the left -wing ports, among other butchers.”

Trump -backed by the house passes to avoid the closure of the government

The Speaker of Parliament Mike Johnson, to the right, uses the leader of the Senate Chic Schumer, the left, and other Democrats against them in a note on the threat of the government looming on the horizon. (Kent Nishimura/Bloomberg via Getty Images; Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

The rest of the memo features a list of Democrats, starting with the then majority leader Chuck Schumer, DN.Y, warning on September 16, 2024, “If the government is closed, you will be the ordinary Americans who suffer more.”

At that time, the Democratic Senate was negotiating with the majority of the House of Representatives in the then President Joe Biden to avoid the closure of the government. This confrontation ended with Biden’s signing of a short-term extension of government financing levels for the previous fiscal year on September 26, 2024-before days of the deadline for the closure of September 30 to December 20, 2024.

Johnson’s memo also indicated the comments of Senator Bernie Sanders, I-VT, from January 4, 2018, during the president Donald Trump The first chapter, “The truth is that the closure of the government is a dangerous and dangerous measure that we must do everything possible to prevent it. The government’s closure will affect tens of millions of our American colleagues who will not be able to access government services.”

Democrats in the Senate, then in the minority, approved the short -term financing bill for the Republican Party in exchange for general assurances to vote on immigration legislation.

Anna Bahr, a spokesperson for Sanders, told Senator that Senator “still fully believed that government closure is dangerous and dangerous, and urges the Trump administration and his Republican colleagues not to do so,” but it was clear that he supports Democrats in the Senate on the GoP bill.

“President Trump’s party controls the House of Representatives, the Senate and the White House and is responsible for keeping the government open,” Bahr said.

Senator Bernie Sanders, an independent of Fairmont and a member of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, will reach a confirmation session in Washington, DC, the United States, on Wednesday, July 16, 2025 (Valerie PleSch/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

During a previous confrontation in late 2023, Senator Mark Kelly, De Areez said.

In a statement to Fox News Digital, Kelly argued that Trump “prefers to close the government instead of maintaining health care premiums from the height of millions of Americans.”

“The only person who wants to close the government is President Donald Trump,” he said.

“The priority should be to keep the government open and I think this is a moment when reasonable people in the Senate must have, and this is where most reasonable people have these days, make sure that we do not make the perfect enemy for the commodity,” said Senator Chris Murphy, De Kon, in November.

Senator Maggie Hassan, DN.H, who voted with Shomer to advance CR in the Republican Party earlier this year, said in December 2024 that the closure will risk “national security and threatening livelihoods – that is why it is important that we voted on the basis of dual playing to avoid closing.”

A spokeswoman for Hassan Fox News told that she still believes that the government closing could cause real pain.

“This is why she is urging President Trump and Republicans in Congress to come to the table and work with Democrats to keep the government open and pass a financing bill that protects health care for millions of Americans,” they said.

58 Democrats House voted against the decision to honor “life and legacy” by Charlie Kerk

The House of Representatives acknowledged a short -term extension while maintaining federal financing levels almost the same, called the continuous decision (CR) last week. The vote has decreased significantly on partisan lines, with only one democratic crossing the corridor in favor of measure.

The draft law also included an additional $ 30 million for legislative security, which both sides welcomed, in addition to $ 58 million, which the White House requested for executive and judicial security.

An attempt to consider the draft law in the Senate after hours It was reduced when Most Democrats, along with two Republicans, opposed a vote to start discussing the procedure.

President Donald Trump speaks to reporters while the White House in Washington leaves on Sunday, September 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

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Now both sides blame each other for a possible closure – which can reach midnight October 1 if a deal in both rooms is not passed by that time.

Democrats are accused of reckless pressure to close and receive non -applicable demands in exchange for maintaining the government open. They have also indicated that government financing levels have been relatively fixed since the fiscal year (FY) 2024, when Democrats supported the priorities of Joe Biden’s spending at the time.

But the Democrats, who hated marginalization in discussions on the draft law, were also pressuring to include reinforced reinforced care law (ACA), which is scheduled to expire at the end of 2025 without taking action in Congress.

Fox News Digital has contacted the Schumer and Murphy offices, but it did not hear immediately.