"I want you to know what that (Democrat) counterproposal includes, because we've not yet gone into all the details of it. It's large and very absurd," Johnson said.

In addition to a half-billion dollars of taxpayer funding for leftist media outlets via the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Democrats are also demanding $200 billion for health care for illegal aliens, Johnson said.

"It would also restore up to $5 billion of American taxpayer funds for wasteful spending for international projects," Speaker Johnson said, providing examples of items in the Democrats' counterproposal to the House-passed continuing resolution that would fund and reopen the federal government:

$3.9 million for LGBTQI+ democracy grants in the western Balkans.
$2 million for organizing for feminist democratic principles in Africa.
$2.9 million for desert locust risk reduction in the Horn of Africa.
$24.6 million for climate resilience in Honduras.
$13.4 million for civic engagement in Zimbabwe.

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