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Mike Johnson: “They want to give 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 Joins Steve Scalise and August Pfluger on the Right to the Point Podcast

Published | Video Starts at 15:49

What they're holding at ransom is the people themselves, because what they're demanding is $1.5 trillion in new spending. They want $200 billion to be returned for health care to illegal aliens, pay more taxpayer dollars. They want to give half a billion dollars back to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. They want to spend money all over the world on these wasteful foreign social programs to increase LGBTQ awareness in the Horn of Africa and all kinds of crazy. (15:49–15:53)

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

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