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Mike Johnson: “They say the Republicans are right because what we did was…”

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

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Speaker Johnson Joins America's Newsroom on Fox

Published | Video Starts at 07:37

The CBO is the analyst that just put that out August 25th. Go look it up. And they said the CBO is not a Republican group. They're the neutral arbiters here. And They say the Republicans are right because what we did was save $185 billion of waste and abuse in the, in the program with our reforms. And we're going to get 2.3 ineligible recipients off of that. That's those illegal aliens. That's the young able bodied men. (07:37–07:46)

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Asserts that Republican reforms saved $185 billion in waste and abuse, according to the CBO.

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