Press Releases

WASHINGTON — Read “Travel Industry Sounds Alarm Over Government Shutdown,” in today’s Wall Street Journal: Hundreds of travel businesses, including casinos, hotels and convention bureaus, are asking Congress to end the monthlong government shutdown by immediately passing a straightforward spending bill, citing worries about the holiday travel season. The letter signed by nearly 500… Read more »

WASHINGTON — This afternoon, Speaker Johnson joined The Will Cain Show on Fox News to discuss how Democrats cynically treat their government shutdown as a game to win or lose, while millions of low-income American families prepare to miss meals and federal workers are showing up to work each day without pay. Watch Speaker Johnson’s full interview here.   On the… Read more »

WASHINGTON — On Day 33 of the Democrat Shutdown, Speaker Johnson joined Shannon Bream on Fox News Sunday to discuss how, despite the real pain they have caused for working families around the country, Democrats shamefully continue to treat the government shutdown as “leverage.” “This is not about winning a political contest here. Real people are losing; the… Read more »

WASHINGTON — As the Democrat Shutdown ends its first full month and November 1 approaches, the real-world consequences are mounting. Important programs that millions of low-income parents, children, and seniors depend on — from grocery assistance to early education — are on the verge of collapse.  While House Republicans passed a clean, nonpartisan funding bill weeks… Read more »

WASHINGTON — On Day 31 of the Democrat Shutdown, Speaker Johnson hosted a press conference alongside U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins to discuss how Senate Democrats have rejected every opportunity to fund SNAP ahead of the program running out of funding tomorrow. Speaker Johnson also offered his gratitude to the hundreds of thousands of federal workers who have shown up… Read more »

WASHINGTON — On Day 30 of the Democrat Shutdown, Speaker Johnson held a press conference alongside the House Republican delegation from New York and House GOP Leadership to discuss America’s largest city preparing to hand the reins of power to a Marxist mayor. Speaker Johnson also addressed how Democrats have wholly capitulated to the Far-Left base of their party. “Chuck Schumer is… Read more »

WASHINGTON — Today’s editorial from the Washington Post Editorial Board echoes what House and Senate Republicans have been saying for weeks: Democrats in Congress are holding the government hostage, and it must end immediately. “The right answer is to reopen the government with a clean funding bill, ideally for a full year, to get food stamps flowing and federal workers back in the… Read more »

WASHINGTON — This afternoon, Speaker Johnson appeared on CNN’s Inside Politics with Dana Bash and Fox News’ The Story with Martha MacCallum to discuss how Congressional Democrats have had 14 opportunities to fully fund SNAP and WIC benefits for American families but have refused each opportunity and instead voted to keep the government closed. “There's a very important point that… Read more »

WASHINGTON — Democrats in Congress have now voted 14 times to keep the government closed. Since the shutdown began, Democrats have cycled through excuses and lies — first claiming that they didn’t cause it, then it was about “health care,” then it was about “Trump.” But over time, they’ve admitted what this is really about: power and political… Read more »

WASHINGTON — On Day 29 of the Democrat Shutdown, Speaker Johnson held a press conference alongside House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Brian Mast and House GOP Leadership to provide another civics lesson to Democrats and media members who refuse to acknowledge that 60 votes are required to pass the clean CR in the U.S. Senate. Speaker Johnson also addressed Democrats abandoning… Read more »