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Mike Johnson: “We had the smallest margin in U.S. history. We had a one…”

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

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Interview with U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson on Tariff Proposals and Congressional Challenges

Published | Video Starts at 10:24

So I'm trying to think as creatively as we can to be as accommodating as we can without traversing the Constitution, because obviously we can't do that. So difficult things to navigate, but we're getting used to that. We had the smallest margin in U.S. history. We had a one vote margin for much of the first hundred days of this Congress and this new Trump administration. We won two big seats in Florida this week. And I've already administered the oath of office to those two new members. And so now we have a margin. (10:24–10:32)

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Asserts that there was a one-vote margin in Congress during the first hundred days of the new Trump administration.

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