Mike Johnson Says Cuck Schumer Made Inappropriate Request During Shutdown

House Speaker Mike Johnson said Monday that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer pressured him to cut a backroom deal to end the government shutdown.

Schumer publicly opposed the shutdown deal and played a key role in Democrats’ failure to secure their top demand, the extension of enhanced Obamacare subsidies set to expire at the end of December. Appearing on “The Lead with Jake Tapper,” Johnson said the Senate leader pressured him to cut a private deal, calling the request “never appropriate” for a short-term funding measure.

“The problem that I had with Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries is Leader Schumer was insisting that I go into a back room, Leader Thune and I, go into a back room with he and Jeffries and do a four corners agreement to fix this. It’s not possible. It was never appropriate to do that on a short-term funding measure,” Johnson told host Jake Tapper.

Johnson said Schumer’s actions wasted valuable time that could have been used to negotiate reforms and long-term fiscal solutions.

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