Fox Reporter Grills Speaker Johnson On GOP’s ‘Fun and Trolling’ During Shutdown

Alex Griffing Oct 3rd, 2025, 5:42 pm

Chad Pergram, Fox News’ senior congressional correspondent, pressed Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) on Friday about Republicans “having fun and trolling people” while the government is shut down and some Americans are losing their jobs.

“How do you say that they take no pleasure in this and then the next minute say, “Oh, they’re just having fun and trolling people”? This is a government shutdown. On one hand, you say this is very serious—people’s jobs are on the line. On the other hand, it’s ‘Oh, this is just fun and games and trolling ,’” Pergram asked Johnson during his Friday presser on Capitol Hill.

“So the effects are very serious on real people, real Americans.

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