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Mike Johnson: “You can't do big policy changes. You can only do things that…”

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Interview with Speaker Mike Johnson on the 'One Big Beautiful Bill' and Congressional Challenges

Published June 18, 2025 | Video Starts at 04:45

So we're trying to put everything into this that we can under the rules of the Senate. And the Byrd rule is something people will hear a lot about. You can't do big policy changes. You can only do things that reduce the deficit, reduce the budget. So in that effort I foresaw, many of us believe that we would have this moment of unified government. (04:45–04:51)

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Asserts that budget reconciliation can only include measures that reduce the deficit or budget.

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“Never in U.S. history have we sustained less than 2% [growth] for 10 years.”
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“Exactly. It's 73, 74% of spending, which is on autopilot, which is frightening.”
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“We're within like about an eight year wind for Medicare and Social Security and Medicaid for that matter, to be insolvent.”
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“In fact, only twice in 90 years has a sitting President's party picked up seats in that first two years.”
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“Since [the Reagan years], the discretionary spending pie has shrunk, and more of it has become mandatory spending.”
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“This is not a spending bill. It's a budget reconciliation bill.”
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“When you are reconciling a budget, you only need 51 votes in the Senate.”
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“We delivered that product. And what's in it is incredible. It is truly historic.”
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“We're going to deliver, by our estimates, $1.6 trillion in savings.”
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“We have an historic level of investment in border security because that was the number one issue in the election.”
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“American energy dominance will return because we have regulatory reform.”
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“We're going to secure and strengthen [Medicaid and SNAP] by eliminating fraud, waste and abuse.”
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“Democrats really do think and act like a union. They are kind of socialist in their philosophy and their ideology.”
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“If the Democrats took over in 2026, in the midterm, they would impeach President Trump on the first week of that Congress.”
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“The CBO is historically inaccurate when it comes to projecting growth in the economy.”
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“We had the greatest economy in the history of the world [during the first two years of the Trump administration].”
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“We have a plan to [change the trajectory of debt], but I can't do it tonight.”
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“Ron Johnson...he'd like to cut $8 trillion from the federal budget tonight.”
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