Miliary Mom Presses Speaker Johnson on Troop Pay

A C-SPAN caller who identified as a Republican from Fort Belvoir, Virginia, pressed Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) to pass a standalone bill to ensure active-duty troops get paid during the shutdown.

"I'm begging you to pass this legislation," she said. "My kids could die."

Speaker Johnson said he was sorry to hear about her situation and that it was stories like that that keep him up at night, but contended that House Republicans had already voted to fund the government and the ball was in Senate Democrats' court.

"The Republicans are the ones delivering for you. We had a vote to pay the troops. It was the continuing resolution three weeks ago," he told her. "Every single Republican but two voted to keep the government open so that your paycheck can flow. Every Democrat in the House except for one voted to close it. The Democrats are the ones that are preventing you from getting a check."

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