Johnson calls potential layoffs ‘a regrettable situation that the president does not want’

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said the Trump administration’s program to laic disconnected thousands of national workers is “regrettable,” but the responsibility is with Democrats who won’t hold to the Republicans’ connection to reopen the government. In an interrogation connected NBC News’s “Meet the Press,” big Kristen Welker pressed Johnson connected the administration’s unprecedented program to…