Johnson Calls Potential Layoffs ‘a Regrettable Situation that the President Does Not Want’

Trump Plans To ‘Permanently Eliminate’ Billions of Dollars in Democratic Priorities Amid Government Shutdown

‘Because of the shutdown … we’re able to take out billions and billions of dollars of waste, fraud, and abuse,’ the president says.

Oklahoma Voice: Government shutdown rolls on after US Senate deadlocks again

WASHINGTON — An agreement to reopen the federal government was nowhere in sight Friday after U.S. Senate Democrats and Republicans failed Friday, for the fourth time, to move on a deal and House Speaker Mike Johnson announced he won’t bring…

As shutdown continues, House speaker calls Democratic priorities 'absurd'

Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said he and Trump are united about negotiating with Democrats on health care only after the government reopens.

Johnson Calls on Democrats to ‘Do the Right Thing’ on Shutdown

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, at a press conference on Tuesday, decried Senate Democrats’ refusal to vote to end the government shutdown. “We only have 53 Republicans, and so we have to have a handful of Democrats who will wake up and do the right thing and stop inflicting pain on the American people so that they can score political points,” Johnson, R-La., said. The federal government has been shut down since Oct. 1 after Senate Democrats …

Who will ‘cave’ in the government shutdown standoff? Ex-GOP insider makes bold prediction

As the U.S. government entered its sixth day of a federal shutdown on Monday, a former GOP insider predicted how it will come to an end while both parties continue trading blame.

Speaker Johnson: Trump wants to solve healthcare after shutdown vote

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson that "some good things could happen with healthcare" after he spoke with President Donald Trump about the government shutdown.