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Mike Johnson: “They want to give a half a billion dollars back to the…”

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

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Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 37 of Government Shutdown

Published | Video Starts at 11:12

That is taxpayer money that they want to spend. For that they want to send billions of dollars back overseas for social programs in foreign countries. We're not doing that. They want to give a half a billion dollars back to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. to prop up left leaning news organizations. We're not doing that. And by the way, in the middle of all this, they want to cut $50 billion from the rural hospital fund. (11:12–11:18)

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Asserts that Democrats want to allocate $500 million to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

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