Overview
- House Speaker Mike Johnson used a Fox News interview on The Ingraham Angle to label prominent Democrats “full Marxists” and their ideology “vapid” and “empty.”
- Johnson said Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Bernie Sanders are leading the Democratic Party and pulling older leaders “by the nose.”
- He accused Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of opposing a short, 21-day continuing resolution because he fears a potential challenge from Ocasio-Cortez.
- Ocasio-Cortez, speaking at a CNN town hall with Sanders, denounced Johnson over the shutdown and pressed demands on President Donald Trump and party leaders to reopen the government.
- At the town hall, she rejected a one-year ACA extension and reiterated goals including health care as a right, a living minimum wage, and tuition-free public colleges, as no funding deal was announced.