House Speaker Mike Johnson continued to blame Democrats for the government shutdown , using misleading Republican talking points that insist that Democratic leadership is pushing to fund health care for undocumented immigrants.

Johnson said Sunday on CBS’s Face the Nation that Democrats “want to spend $1.5 trillion, and they want to return hard-working taxpayer dollars to fund health care for illegal aliens. It is in their bill. Go to speaker.gov and see it for yourself. Page 57, Section 2141. They’re using this for political games, and it is shameful, and real people are getting hurt.”

“I have looked at that text,” host Margaret Brennan replied. “It doesn’t explicitly say what you are indicating.”

We went to the Speaker’s site, which links to the Democratic proposal . The speci

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