Mike Johnson: “You have to use the budget reconciliation process to do it…”

“You know, Chuck Schumer and the Democrats in the Senate and Hakeem Jeffries and the Democrats in the House, they have no interest whatsoever in solving problems. So we have to do it ourselves. And You have to use the budget reconciliation process to do it. It avoids the 60 vote threshold in the Senate. So that's why all these various components of the bill are put together, complex pieces of the bill. But we're going to solve this equation, Trey. We have to.” (01:36–01:43)

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