Mike Johnson: “They want to give a half a billion dollars to liberal news…”

“Again, look at their counter proposal. 1.5 trillion in new spending. $200 billion to use hard earned taxpayer dollars to fund health care and other benefits for illegal aliens and noncitizens. And They want to give a half a billion dollars to liberal news outlets, to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting while cutting $50 billion from rural hospitals. These are not serious measures. They're not serious kind of proposals. And they know that. They know. They can't tell voters.” (09:46–09:55)

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