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Mike Johnson: “Democrats want to give a half a billion dollar to liberal…”

Featuring: Mike Johnson, Republican | Speaker of the United States House of Representatives | National

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Published | Video Starts at 16:01

Again, look at their counter proposal. 1.5 trillion in new spending. $200 billion to use hard earned taxpayer dollars to fund health care and other benefits for illegal aliens and noncitizens. And they Democrats want to give a half a billion dollar to liberal news outlets, to the Corporation for Public broadcasting while cutting 50 billion from rural hospitals. These are not serious measures. They're not serious kind of proposals. And they know that. They know. They can't tell voters. (16:01–16:11)

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Asserts that Democrats propose funding liberal news outlets and cutting funds from rural hospitals.

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