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Mike Johnson: “They would rather endanger the American homeland than fund…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 19:39

It's the longest in history because they'd rather reopen the border than pay our hardworking men and women of our law enforcement. They would rather defund the police than pay our TSA workers at the airport. They would rather endanger the American homeland than fund basic immigration enforcement. I've said it before, I'll say it again. You heard the theme here this morning. You'll hear it all the way through the election cycle. Our politics have now entered a new era. (19:39–19:46)

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Asserts that Democrats prefer to endanger homeland security over funding immigration enforcement.

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