Speaker Johnson calls out AOC, Dems: 'Don't think I've ever agreed with her before'

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00:00Speaker Johnson is giving some remarks before taking questions. They got a big

00:04vote ahead of them. Let's listen in.

00:05And on to cable news shows to protest

00:07President Trump's efforts to make the government more efficient. Now they're

00:11planning to vote down this simple bill. They are going to try to shut the

00:15government down. Every House Democrat will participate in this. It looks like

00:18that would be a shame if it's true. I hope some of them will have a moment of

00:22clarity themselves and do the right thing, but it looks like they're going to

00:25try to shut down the government. It's a striking new posture for Democrats who

00:29have always said they've just been apoplectic about the prospect of

00:33government shutdowns. I put a video out about an hour ago on on social media. I

00:36encourage you to go see that. This is there. They have been their own words. You

00:39don't need to trust us on this. But Catherine Clark, here's one little

00:43zinger from her quote. Not only is it irresponsible and purposefully

00:47misleading, but it's also a dangerous precedent to be threatening a shutdown,

00:51unquote. I remember this is this is in last year, years past. Pramila Jaipal

00:56quote. The tragedy here is all the civilian employees. It's the employees

01:00who are going to suffer, unquote AOC quote. It is not normal to hold 100,000

01:05workers paychecks hostage. It is not normal to shut down the government when

01:09we don't get what we want, unquote. I don't think I've ever agreed with her

01:13before. She's exactly right. Jerry Nadler said, quote, Shutdown is really

01:17an extremist policy designed to appeal to an extremist base and hold the whole

01:21country hostage. Yeah, we agree. So they and all their colleagues and you do the

01:25right thing. Democrats have been insisting they're fighting for federal

01:28workers. You're about to see again on vivid display. Very clear. The

01:32contrast. You will see one team that is working to fund the government and make

01:37sure we do the responsible thing. And you're going to see another posing the

01:41CR because they've now exposed the truth. They're not for federal workers.

01:44They're not for anyone. All the people they said in the past that are gonna be

01:47harmed would be by their votes. They're using federal employees as props.

01:51They're using Medicaid benefits and Social Security checks as cudgels in

01:54this thing. The threat of government shutdown. They're using it some sort of

01:58attempt to wrestle power away from the president of the United States, who

02:02overwhelmingly won the popular vote, the Electoral College and every single

02:06swing state. Here's the bottom line. If congressional Democrats refuse to

02:10support this clean CR CR, they will be responsible for every troop who misses a

02:16paycheck for every flight delay from reduced staffing at TSA for every

02:20negative consequence that comes from shutting down the government. I

02:25understand they have an important retreat this week. Boy, I'd love to be a

02:27fly on the wall at that party. Uh, comes at a critical time since they don't

02:31have a leader, a message or a platform. And I'm just gonna say this. If our

02:35Democrat colleagues want to increase their 21% approval rating with the

02:39American public, they ought to start by doing the right thing and keeping the

02:42government open. I think that'd be a great first step. So I'll take questions.

02:46Chess continually criticized the Democrats. Doesn't that imply that you

02:52don't have the votes on your side because you wouldn't need Democratic

02:56assistance? Keep the government? No, we'll have to look. We're gonna pass

02:59the CR. We could do it on our own. But what I'm saying is Democrats ought to

03:04do the responsible thing, follow their own advice in every previous scenario

03:09and keep the government open. It's their choice. I wish it could be a

03:13unanimous vote in the House chamber today. That would be a great thing for

03:17America. But they're not gonna do it, Jack, because they're on this, this

03:21lost, you know, they're wandering in the wilderness and they're cursing this

03:24guy at the same time. And you're gonna see that today. They're gonna vote no

03:27and they're gonna come out and try to pan it. They're gonna lie about it. And

03:30we're calling on you guys to call them to account. Make them tell you the

03:33truth about the bill. They didn't read it before. They said all that nonsense.

03:36So ask him that.

03:37Mr Speaker, the president went after one of your own colleagues yesterday.

03:43Thomas Massey does plan to vote against this. He says he should be primary. Do

03:48you agree with the president? Should Thomas Massey be primary for his vote

03:51against us? Look, I'm in the incumbent protection program here. That's what I

03:56do. Speaker of the House and you know me and my style and my, you know, the way

04:00I do this job. I don't. I bless those who persecute me, right? So, um, Thomas

04:06and I have had disagreements, but I consider Thomas Massey a friend. He's a

04:10thoughtful guy. Um, he's I guess he'll tell you he's doing what he thinks is

04:15right on this. I just vehemently disagree with this position, but I'll

04:18leave it at that. Mr Speaker, you in the past did not vote for C. R. S. When

04:22you were rank and file member, you have said in the past that you were done

04:26with short term C. R. S. By my count, my math might be a little off. This

04:29will be the fifth continuing resolution that you're presiding over a speaker of

04:33the House. What do you say to your conservative colleagues who have heard

04:36you in the past promise that you were going to start to go through a regular

04:40appropriations process, but yet again find themselves in a position where

04:43they have to take a difficult vote on a C. R. Yeah, it's a great question. I'll

04:46rewind and replay the chairman of the House Freedom Caucus here. Dr Andy

04:49Harris, who said it so well, this is a different C. R. Than anything we've

04:53seen in our careers in Congress. I've been here eight years. He's been here a

04:56bit longer. It normally is something that's a patchwork to give us more time

05:01to try to get to the appropriations process. This is totally different. A

05:05year long C. R. Which is the first that I think we've had. I don't know that

05:09there is a precedent for an actual year long C. R. Um, it solves the problem

05:13because it freezes federal spending. It takes care of these immediate

05:17priorities that have been articulated here, and it allows us to move forward

05:22with changing the size and scope of the federal government. There is a seismic

05:26shift going on in Washington right now. This is a different moment than we have

05:29ever been in. The Doge work is finding the massive amounts of fraud, waste

05:34and abuse. We have a White House that is actually dedicated to getting us back

05:38onto a fiscally responsible track. We're gonna scale down the size of the

05:44bureaucracy and the agencies, which has become the fourth branch of government.

05:47None of that was was present or true before. When I became speaker, I

05:51inherited a real mess. We had Joe Biden in the White House. We had divided

05:56government, and it was a very difficult thing for us to navigate through. I

05:58didn't get to do anything I wanted or thought was really important for the

06:01country. I did what we had to do, what was necessary, what we could get 218

06:05votes for. Um, this is a totally different scenario by doing the C. R.

06:10This time, it actually is the responsible play and the conservative

06:14play because we're conserving the resources of the American people. And

06:17this is this is something that all of us have wanted to do our whole careers,

06:20and we now have the opportunity to last year, sir. Will you support? Yeah,

06:24this is what I expect is that this White House is gonna actually do its

06:27job. What a concept. This White House is going to send us a budget that

06:32hasn't. This hasn't been done in a while. This White House gonna send us

06:34a budget that's gonna request funding for a smaller, leaner, more efficient,

06:39effective, accountable federal government. That is a new paradigm for

06:43us, and we're excited about that. That's what we'll be working on. As

06:45soon as we get f y 26 off the table f y 25, we turned f y 26, and that's when

06:52we have all the cuts that in the savings that will be actualized at

06:56that point. There's a There's a process, as I've explained in here. You

07:00have to qualify those savings. You've got to quantify them, and then you

07:03codified it. Well, the codification process comes for f y 26. You're gonna

07:07see the administration and the Congress working in tandem to provide and

07:12present a better government for the people, and that is something many of

07:16us ran for Congress to do. That day is now upon us, and we're excited about

07:19it. Mr Speaker, the stock market plunged yesterday. It's going down

07:23again today. Part of the reason is because of President Trump's policies

07:27on tariffs, including the ones that were just introduced this morning. Can

07:30you comment here? Does Trump need to rethink what he is doing, given the

07:35chaos that we're seeing in the stock market? This is how I feel about it.

07:39Many of us feel about it. The president has already proven what he can do on

07:42the economy. This is not theoretical. Look at the first term of the Trump

07:46administration. Prior to Cove it. We've talked about this many time in here

07:49times in here. At the first two years of Trump administration, we have the

07:52greatest economy in the history of the world, not just the U. S. Go check. We

07:55had every demographic was doing better. All boats were rising. We had a

08:00thriving U. S. Economy. We were booming, and that's because of the policies and

08:05the strategy that President Trump led and delivered. We cut taxes. We cut

08:09regulations. We let people keep more money in their pocket, and we made

08:15America the first priority. That is what he is doing again. Now he's got a

08:18He's got a reshake and shape things because it's in a real mess. The last

08:22four years was a disaster in economic policy and every other measurement of

08:26public policy. So what President Trump is doing, I think of it sort of like a

08:30like like when you're playing billiards and playing pool, right? You go on the

08:33table and the balls are wrecked, right? And you hit it as hard as you can. This

08:36is many people's strategy in the game. You hit it as hard as you can to break

08:39up the balls on the table and send them spread. Then you play the strategy of

08:44sinking him in the holes, right? That's what we're doing right now. It is a

08:47shake up, and he said there's going to be a shake up right now. But this is

08:51what's required in my mind to start the process of repairing and restoring the

08:56American economy. I believe that the strategy is going to work. I believe

08:59that, you know, sometimes when when you shake up that it's a it's a violent

09:03thing on the table, right? In the game metaphor. But it always works out well

09:07in the end, and I think you've got to give him time. He's been in office for

09:09just over what? 50 days. This is the 51st day in office. Give the president

09:14a chance to have these policies play out. That's where we are.

09:19In your estimation, what crime did not commit to warrant his arrest, detention

09:24and potential revocation? Let me tell you something. I went face down the

09:28angry mob at Columbia at the height of that stuff. When when the pro

09:31Palestinian pro Hamas protesters there, I'm telling you, this is my own

09:36observation, not something I read in the newspaper. It was dangerous. I met

09:39with Jewish students before he went to campus who were holed away off campus

09:43because they were instructed by the administration not to come to class,

09:46which they paid for for fear of their physical safety. The administrators

09:50there refused to take control that campus. They refused to allow the PD to

09:54come. The police department come in and take control, and it turned into a

09:58chaos. The president has since been removed, and now they got the same

10:02problem again. Columbia and other universities. They have to keep control

10:05of campus. The first responsibility of an administration is ensuring the

10:09safety of the students who are paying tuition to be there for crying out

10:12loud. This madness has to stop. We have to get control of it. This guy

10:18apparently was a mastermind of those very things when the gnashing of teeth

10:21and the ripping of clothes and people screaming at me want to rip me limb

10:24from limb because I was there talking about moral clarity and how there's a

10:27right and wrong. Um, they were doing that. They disrupted the campus. They

10:31were threatening physical violence of the fellow students. If you're on a

10:35student visa, I'm gonna say this clearly. If you were on a student visa

10:38and you're in America and you're an aspiring young terrorist who wants to

10:41prey upon your Jewish classmates, you're going home. We're gonna arrest

10:45your tail, and we're gonna send you home where you belong. And that this is

10:50just getting started. So look, I I appreciate free speech. I used to

10:55defend it in courts, but this is far beyond the pale of that. When you were

10:59threatening your classmates and spewing anti semitism and all this hatred, it's

11:03enough. And I think the American people understand that they're supporting it,

11:06and I'm glad we have a president who's strong enough to lay down the law.

11:09Thanks a lot.

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