"With regard to paying the troops, I want everybody to listen to me very carefully, Johnson said. Hakeem Jeffries and the House Democrats, as Leader [Steve] Scalise said so well, are clamoring to get back here and have another vote because some of them want to get on record and say, they're for paying the troops. We already had that vote. It's called the CR [Continuing Resolution]."
"Of course, we want to pay our troops, and our air traffic controllers, and our Border Patrol agents, and TSA, and everybody else. We had that vote! he said. If a resolution is not reached by Oct. 15, American troops will miss a paycheck. Separate funding was put aside in most previous shutdowns. Johnson called the calls for a standalone vote an attempt to make show votes for political purposes."
Mike Johnson walked back earlier openness to a standalone vote to keep military members paid amid the partial federal government shutdown. He asserted that House Democrats already had a vote through the continuing resolution and accused them of seeking show votes for political purposes. Johnson expressed support for paying troops, air traffic controllers, Border Patrol agents, TSA and other federal workers while warning that without a resolution by Oct. 15 American troops could miss a paycheck. Democrats urged extending Affordable Care Act subsidies, warning of potential rises in health insurance costs.
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