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Mike Johnson: “They also want to gut the $50 billion that we included in…”

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

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Speaker Johnson Joins Squawk Box on CNBC

Published | Video Starts at 02:40

We don't, American taxpayers are not supposed to fund people who break the law coming into the country illegally. They're demanding that as a condition of their votes. They also want to gut the $50 billion that we included in our legislation have already passed, signed into law to protect rural hospitals. They want to claw that money back inexplicably. They want to give the Corporation for public broadcasting $500 million, a half a billion dollars to prop up these, these left leaning media organizations that we defunded. (02:40–02:50)

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Asserts that Democrats want to remove $50 billion allocated to protect rural hospitals.

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