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Mike Johnson: “We would have to use the budget reconciliation process…”

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

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Speaker Johnson on Pod Force One with Miranda Devine

Published | Video Starts at 01:16

… to fix every metric of public policy because Biden Harris just destroyed everything in four years. So to do that, we knew we would need to do a partisan exercise. We would have to use the budget reconciliation process, which is, as you know, the only way around the 60 vote threshold in the Senate. which is always otherwise necessary. So to do that, you're never going to make. Never going to make, I mean, Chuck Schumer, the Democrats not going to help. No. Right. (01:16–01:26)

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Asserts that budget reconciliation is the only way to bypass the 60-vote threshold in the Senate.

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