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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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Published | Video Starts at 12:10

And if you go through it and we have and you analyze what it is they're requesting, it's a list of absurd priorities. They know that we could never do that and would never do it because it's wrong. For example, They want to give a half a billion dollars back to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. in the one big beautiful bill. We eliminated that line. We don't believe that taxpayers should be funding biased news organizations and subsidizing their operations. (12:10–12:15)

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

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