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Mike Johnson: “We inherited an absolute disaster from the Biden…”

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Speaker Johnson Delivers Remarks at House Leadership Press Conference

Published December 10, 2025 | Video Starts at 01:38

And there are so many things in that bill that our members are going to be so excited to go and run on and talk about in the upcoming election cycle because We inherited an absolute disaster from the Biden administration. Virtually every area of public policy was decimated. And we had to rebuild from the ground up in many of these places and make all sorts of changes and reforms to get America back again. (01:38–01:42)

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Asserts that the Biden administration left the country in a poor state.

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