Mike Johnson: “They want a trillion and a half new dollars of wasteful…”

“It's not the health care subsidy extension. That's a red herring. That's their talking point distraction that they've globbed onto. They actually put on paper, Joe, what they want. They want a trillion and a half new dollars of wasteful spending. They want to prop up leftist news organizations with the Corporation for Public Broadcasting with a half a billion dollars. They want to send billions of dollars back overseas to social programs in foreign countries.” (03:38–03:43)

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