Mike Johnson uses DEMS’s own words against them in the government’s closure warning

The Republicans and Democrats continue to exchange blows before a potential government closure next week, the two parties indicating that neither is willing to move his position on federal funding.

President Mike Johnson, R-La., Published a memo earlier this week highlighting the comments of the last years of the Democrats of the Senate warning the traps of a government closure.

“The House Republicans acted in a responsible manner last week to keep the government open with continuous resolution in the short term,” said Johnson’s note.

“The Democrats of the Senate, who warned that the closures would injure the elderly, the veterans and the families of workers, are now threatening to force one unless the Congress is reduced to the tax reduction in workers’ families, restores health care funded by taxpayers for illegal foreigners and sends half-dollars of dollars, among other partisan expenses. “.

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The president of the room, Mike Johnson, on the right, uses the head of the Senate minority, Chuck Schumer, on the left, and the words of the other Democrats against them in a memo on the threat of government closure. (Kent Nishimura / Bloomberg via Getty Images; Tasos Katopodis / Getty Images)

The rest of the note presents a list of the comments of the Democrats, starting with the majority leader of the time, Chuck Schumer, Dn.y., warning on September 16, 2024, “if the government stops, it will be the average Americans who will suffer the most”.

At the time, the Senate controlled by the Democrats negotiated with the majority of the GOP in the Chamber under the president of the time, Joe Biden, to avoid a closure of the government. This impasse ended with Biden signing a short -term extension of the government’s financing levels for the previous year on September 26, 2024 – a few days before the closure deadline from September 30 – until December 20, 2024.

Johnson’s memo also referred to the comments of Senator Bernie Sanders, I-VT., From January 4, 2018, during the first term of President Donald Trump: “The truth is that the government is a serious and dangerous action that we must do everything possible to access government services.”

The Democrats of the Senate, then a minority, accepted the GOP short -term financing bill in exchange for public insurance for a vote on immigration legislation.

Anna Bahr, spokesperson for Sanders, told Fox News Digital that the senator “absolutely believes that a government closure is serious and dangerous, and urges the Trump administration and its republican colleagues not to do so”, but that it was clear that it would support the senior democrats’ counter-program for the Democrats for Senating Democrats.

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

Senator Bernie Sanders, classification member of the senatorial committee of health, education, labor and pensions, arrives for a confirmation audience in Washington, DC, Wednesday July 16, 2025 (Valerie Plesch / Bloomberg via Getty Images)

During a previous impasse at the end of 2023, Senator Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., Said, according to Johnson’s note, “a government closure would have serious impacts. Service services will not obtain their pay checks. Airports could have major delays. Nutritional aid for children could be cut. To prevent downstream. “

Kelley has argued in a statement to Fox News Digital that Trump “prefers to close the government rather than prevent health care premiums from skyrocketing for millions of Americans.”

“The only person who wants a government closure is President Donald Trump,” he said.

Senator Chris Murphy, D-CONN., Said in November of the same year: “Priority must be to keep the government open and I think it is a time when reasonable people in the Senate, and this is where most reasonable people are these days, must make sure that we do not make the perfect the enemy of good.”

And Senator Maggie Hassan, DN.H., who, with Schumer, voted to advance the GOP CR earlier this year, said in December 2024 that closings would risk “national security and the threat of livelihoods – which is why it is important that we voted on a bipartite basis to allow a stop”.

A Hassan spokesperson told Fox News that she still thought that government closure could cause real pain.

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

58 House DEMS Vote against the resolution in honor of the “life and inheritance” of Charlie Kirk

The house adopted a short -term extension by roughly keeping the levels of federal funding almost the same, called continuous resolution (CR), last week. The vote fell largely according to the party parties, with a single democrat crossing the aisle in favor of the measure.

The bill also included an additional $ 30 million for the security of the legislators, which was welcomed by both parties, as well as $ 58 million requested by the White House for the safety of executive and judicial branches.

An effort to consider the bill in the Senate a few hours later was scuttled when Most of the Democrats, as well as two Republicans, opposed a vote to start debating the measure.

President Donald Trump speaks to journalists as he leaves the White House in Washington, Sunday, September 7, 2025. (AP photo / Jose Luis Magana)

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From now on, the two parties blame themselves for a potential stop – which could strike at midnight on October 1 if an agreement did not go through the two rooms by then.

The Republicans accuse the Democrats of having recklessly pushed a closure and of making inorerous requests in exchange for keeping the government open. They also pointed out that the government’s financing levels have remained relatively stable since the financial year (fiscal year) 2024, when the Democrats supported the expenses of the president of the then, Joe Biden.

But the Democrats, furious while being sidelined in the discussions on the bill, also put pressure for the inclusion of improved subsidies of the Act respecting affordable care (ACA) which should expire at the end of 2025 without action of the congress.

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