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Mike Johnson: “You would have D.C. and Puerto Rico be made into states…”

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

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Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 34 of Government Shutdown

Published | Video Starts at 25:41

They've already told us they would pack the Supreme Court. You'd go from 9 to 13 or 15 or 17 or however many liberals they could pack on the court. You would have D.C. and Puerto Rico be made into states which would give four additional Democrat senators there in the count. and make us a permanent minority. I guess that would be their calculation. You would see massive restriction of the Second Amendment, Second Amendment rights. (25:41–25:48)

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Asserts that statehood for D.C. and Puerto Rico would add four Democratic senators.

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