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Mike Johnson: “You got to have 60 votes in the Senate. We only have 53…”

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Speaker Johnson Joins All Things with Kim Strassel (Wall Street Journal)

Published October 22, 2025 | Video Starts at 03:40

I mean, your audience is very sophisticated. They know this. But a lot of people back home get lost in it. It's a math problem, right? You got to have 60 votes in the Senate. We only have 53 Republicans. So we've got to have a handful of Democrats do the right thing. The pressure points that come forward on the calendar are, Well, I mean, November 1st, they all … (03:40–03:44)

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Asserts that 60 votes are needed in the Senate and there are only 53 Republican Senators.

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