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Mike Johnson: “Taxpayer funding is not supposed to support abortion.”

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

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Speaker Johnson Joins Wake Up American on News Max

Published | Video Starts at 09:16

Somebody can make $550,000 a year and taxpayers are funding their health care. I mean, it's wrong. There's lots of we're concerned about the lack of Hyde protections in those provisions that, you know, Taxpayer funding is not supposed to support abortion. all those things. But we need a month or two, obviously, to hash all that out. It's not going to happen today. They know it wouldn't happen today and it and it's not supposed to. (09:16–09:19)

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Asserts that taxpayer funding should not be used to support abortion, referencing the lack of Hyde protections.

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