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Mike Johnson: “Our disaster relief funds are being depleted right now.”

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

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Speaker Johnson Delivers Remarks to Press After House Vote to Fund Department of Homeland Security

Published | Video Starts at 01:10

We have 10 agencies in DHS. They happen to be all the agencies whose job it is to keep Americans safe. You're talking about fema. Do you know that Our disaster relief funds are being depleted right now. You're talking about tsa. You're talking about the Coast Guard. They're not getting paychecks right now. And that's why we have all this calamity and all of this danger. (01:10–01:13)

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