Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) insisted on Sunday that there is “nothing partisan” about the Republican bill to keep the government funded ahead of the shutdown deadline this Wednesday.

In an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union,” the GOP leader pushed back on House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries’s (D-N.Y.) suggestion this past week that the Republican proposal is a “reckless partisan bill that continues to gut the health care of the American people” and that “their bill is dead on arrival.”

“Look, that statement by my friend Hakeem is absolutely absurd,”........

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