Speaker Mike Johnson told Fox & Friends he doesn’t like the spending bill that would avert a partial government shutdown.
But Johnson said they “just have to get it done.”
The 1500+ page bill would extend the FY 2024 spending levels through March 14.
WHY? No, you do not. Johnson said that since the GOP has a razor-thin majority, it needs Democrat votes. In the Senate, yeah, since they have the majority.
But you literally have the majority in the House. You don’t need Democrat votes in the House.
I cannot with these people:
EARHARDT: We don’t have a choice. We have to fund those. We have to fund FEMA, we have to fund our farmers, right?DOOCY: And, Mr. Speaker, it’s not just..so you’ve got a bunch of Republicans who are angry at you. They don’t like this. And just in a couple of weeks you’re going to stand once again to run for speaker of the House, and you don’t need a bunch of Democrats mad at you.And, this is breaking news, you do not, know..you know who also does not like this? Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, just tweeted, “This bill should not pass.”The only way you’re going to be able to pass it now, Mr. Speaker, is with Democrats. If you could, what’s your message to Elon Musk?JOHNSON: Well, I was communicating with Elon last night, Elon and Vivek and I are on a text chain together, and I was explaining to them the background of this. And Vivek and I talked last night about almost midnight, and he said, “Look, I get it.” He said “We understand you’re in an impossible position.” Everybody knows that. Remember, guys, we still have just a razor thin margin of Republicans. So any bill has to have Democrat votes. They understand the situation.They said it’s not directed to you, Mr. Speaker, but we don’t like the spending. I said, guess what, fellas? I don’t either. We got to get this done. Because here’s the key. By doing this, we are clearing the decks and we are setting up for Trump to come in, roaring back with America first agenda. That’s what we’re going to run with gusto beginning January 3, when we start the new Congress, when Republicans, again, have control and all of our fiscal conservative friends, I’m one of them, will be able to finally do the things that we have been wanting to do for the last couple of years.Right now, Democrats still control [inaudible] and that’s the problem. So we got to get this thing done so we don’t have the shutdown. So we get the short term funding measure and we get to march where we can put our fingerprints on the spending. That’s when the big changes start and we can’t wait to get there, right?
Um, Democrats still control the what? CC says, “depends,” my transcribing software heard “pins.” Democrats don’t control anything in the House, Johnson.
Please let me know if you guys can understand what he says. It starts at 1:31, so you don’t have to listen through the whole pathetic exchange.
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