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Mike Johnson: “The president and his administration came in, they…”

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

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Speaker Johnson on Pod Force One with Miranda Devine

Published | Video Starts at 06:30

You know, it's a rescission is in layman's terms, it's when Congress claws back spending that has been wasted, fraud, waste. And abuse under the Biden administration. That's right. That's right. And The president and his administration came in, they identified these areas, like usaid, for example, was just fraught with abuse and wasteful uses of taxpayer dollars. We were funding transgender operas in Peru, you know, and Congress didn't know that. Right. (06:30–06:41)

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