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House Speaker Mike Johnson , R-La., accused Democrats Friday of 'playing politics' with Americans' lives amid the ongoing government shutdown.

" Chuck Schumer and the Democrats are playing politics with the lives of real American people. He's getting accolades right now from the far left," Johnson argued. "That was the whole objective. They had to appease the Marxist base of the Democrat Party, and so they pick this fight right now. It is absurd."

After watching a clip of House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., blaming Republicans for the shutdown, Johnson told "Fox & Friends" co-host Brian Kilmeade that it was "infuriating" to hear the New York Democrat stating "the opposite of the truth."

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