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Mike Johnson: “They want to spend a half a billion dollars to prop up left…”

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 34 of Government Shutdown

Published | Video Starts at 04:59

They want to spend billions in wasteful left wing spending projects in foreign countries on things like LGBTQ awareness in the Horn of Africa. All sorts of things. I could give you a long list and we've said it here before. They want to spend a half a billion dollars to prop up left leaning news organizations. And shockingly, in that same proposal as their ransom for reopening the government, they want to cut $50 billion from the rural hospital fund that the Republicans just got signed into law on July 4th. (04:59–05:04)

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Asserts that Democrats want to spend $500 million on left-leaning news organizations.

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