Roland Martin
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No Paychecks. No Plan. Mike Johnson Squirms. GOP Shutdown Hits Military Families & Workers Hard.
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27:31Now PlayingTwenty plus days without pay. Families hurting. Military spouses unloading on Speaker Mike Johnson in tears.
Johnson refused to recall the House, choosing loyalty to MAGA politics over American workers and soldiers.
Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries framed it with surgical precision — this is the Republican health-care crisis. The GOP called it freedom. Families called it starvation. We're calling it what it is: manufactured misery.
🔥 Mike Johnson left town while federal workers and military families went unpaid.
🔥 The GOP shutdown stretched twenty days and counting with no plan in sight.
🔥 Roland Martin and the panel exposed the human cost — spouses, small businesses, and healthcare workers caught in chaos.
🔥 Hakeem Jeffries and Democrats stayed disciplined, calling it the “Republican health-care crisis.”
🔥 Dr. Omékongo Dibinga said, every shutdown is a policy choice — and this one was designed to hurt.
🔥 Manufactured misery isn’t an accident. It’s a strategy.
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