At a press gaggle, Speaker Johnson responded to the market falling 1300 points.
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00:00That's what he committed to.
00:01The Pressure on the markets, because the markets are down 1,300 points,
00:05and you talked about sending them a strong signal that Congress is doing its work.
00:09I mean, obviously, we saw the President put the pause on his tears.
00:12Does he need to just end them, scrap them at this point to give the markets more certainty?
00:17I'm delighted to let the President make the decisions on that.
00:20I mean, he and I spoke yesterday about the spike in the stock market after the pause,
00:24and I think he recognized the moment was right to do it, and that seems to be a great decision.
00:29So we're going to let him do that.
00:31I'm going to do my job over here, but I do hope and believe that the vote today is a very strong signal to the markets,
00:36to investors, job creators, entrepreneurs, the people that make the economy run,
00:41that Congress is going to get us on sound footing, and you can count on that, and you can bet on it,
00:46and you ought to, I think today would be a great day to buy stocks.