House Speaker Mike Johnson claims that financing for the border between the United States and Mexico and help for Ukraine “makes sense.”
The recently elected speaker contended during a Fox News interview that “we have to take care of our own border first.”
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“What this is about is advancing the agenda and first priorities of the American people. I don’t know which Democrat gave you that absurd quote, but they clearly are not listening to their constituents,” Johnson told Shannon Bream of Fox News. “If you go out into the country people will say, ‘Look we understand our role as a leader in the free world, and we understand that we’re the great superpower that needs to assist and ensure that freedom survives, but we have to take care of our own house first.’”
“And securing our border is an essential priority for the American people. So they’re not listening to their constituents. I think that’s a tone-deaf response,” he continued. “Again, we can do all these things together, but when you couple Ukraine and the border, that makes sense to people because they say If we’re going to protect Ukraine’s border, and we have to do what if necessary there, we don’t want Vladimir Putin to prevail, we can’t afford that, the free world can’t afford that, but we have to take care of our own border first.”
Johnson spoke of a “growing consensus in Congress, certainly among Republicans, but even some across the aisle who recognize you have to change what is happening.” Citing almost 6.3 million undocumented border crossings since President Biden assumed office, he said “that’s more than the population of my state.”
“We cannot continue this, everyone knows it,” Johnson said. “And the fentanyl that’s coming over the border, human trafficking, the cartels making billions of dollars off of our backs, we are going to stop that. And the House Republicans are committed to it. I think the people are with us.”
Johnson acknowledges that not every appropriations measure might be completed by the deadline of November 17. He does, however, reassure that he has spent the weekend painstakingly working on a temporary fix.
He said that this year’s continuing resolution is different from past ones in that it would provide time to continue “the appropriations process” and pledged to continue in good faith.
“We’re committed to bringing 12 bills to the floor as the statutory law requires Congress to do that hasn’t been done in many years, but again we’re changing the way Washington works because we believe it needs to be more accountable and more transparent for the people.”
Johnson asserted that House Republicans are “trying to be good stewards of the taxpayers’ resources” by balancing the spending rather than boosting money printing or borrowing to assist meet obligations to friends, which is why the $14.5 billion proposal is being challenged.
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He favors diverting the more than $67 billion budget intended for IRS growth and placing Israel’s security “above hiring more IRS agents.”
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Johnson rejects the findings of the Congressional Budget Office, arguing that his offset plan will result in $26.8 billion less in taxes and $12.5 billion more in the federal deficit over a ten-year period.
“Only in Washington can you cut funding, add a pay-for to a new spending measure, and they say it’s terrible for the deficit,” Referring to the nation’s debt of more than $33.5 trillion, he informed anchor Shannon Bream.
“Listen, we’re taking care of our priorities and we will. We know that these other important measures that right there on the table and we’re working through it hour by hour, day-by-day and we’re going to meet those obligations. But we have to do things in the proper order and we are committed to changing how Washington works,” he continued.
“I think you see a united and energized House conference. All of our members are working together in good faith trying to solve these great challenges that we face, and I’m very optimistic that we’re going to do that. But we are going to also change the trajectory we’re on,” Johnson said.
