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Mike Johnson: “When you throw a bunch of new money into the system, it…”

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

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Speaker Johnson Delivers Remarks at House Leadership Press Conference

Published | Video Starts at 18:43

Affordability issues are real and the Democrats themselves created the crisis. Remember over the last four years of the Biden administration they spent like drunken sailors. And When you throw a bunch of new money into the system, it makes inflation rise. Right. Republicans are ready and eager to continue our work to clean up the mess that the Democrats made. We've been doing that already and we're going to continue to do it. (18:43–18:47)

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Asserts that injecting new money into the system causes inflation to rise.

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