“Members of this institution and the media have a moral obligation to call this out.”
For Immediate Release
June 4, 2025
Contact: Taylor Haulsee
WASHINGTON — This morning, at the weekly House Republican Leadership press conference, Speaker Johnson condemned the rise of the far-left, antisemitic terror movement taking hold in the U.S., reaffirmed House Republicans’ commitment to codifying DOGE cuts through the rescissions process, and highlighted House Republicans’ efforts to implement President Trump’s executive orders.
Watch the Speaker’s full remarks here
On the rise of targeted, far-left antisemitic attacks:
This attack over the weekend was actually the second time in three weeks that our country has witnessed these horrific acts of antisemitic terror here on American soil. And it was of course, a few miles down the road. Two Israeli embassy staffers, a young couple who had planned to wed soon, were senselessly gunned down on the street. When they asked the killer what his motivation was, he said that he “did it for Palestine.” This weekend, an Egyptian terrorist in Boulder, Colorado, Mohamed Soliman lit at least 12 Jewish people on fire. He told police he wanted to kill every single one of them. And you know what he yelled out during the attack, he said, “Free Palestine.” We also can’t forget that in April, a terrorist burned the Governor’s Mansion in Pennsylvania, attempting to kill Jewish Governor Josh Shapiro and his sleeping family inside. Search warrants found that the terrorists targeted Shapiro because of perceived injustices against Palestine. There’s a theme here: why would terrorists target a young innocent couple or peaceful protestors or the Governor of an American state with no jurisdiction over a war that’s happening 5,000 miles away? Because it isn’t about Palestine, it isn’t about Gaza, it isn’t about any particular conflict. It’s because these people want a complete and total extermination of the Jewish people. And there is a targeted left wing anti-Semitic terror movement on the rise in America.
We have to address this first and foremost. Members of this institution and the media have a moral obligation to call this out. We do not equivocate, as the Leader said. We do not, “both sides” this issue at all. This is very clear. It’s light versus darkness. It is an evil that we are confronting, and we’ll continue to call it out. In the Trump Administration, Attorney General Pam Bondi, and FBI Director Kash Patel will continue to pursue these anti-Semitic threats and actions against the Jewish people on our soil and bring these violent criminals to justice. We will speak with moral clarity, and we will demand the same of all of our colleagues and both parties to do that. I hope they will.
On passing the One Big Beautiful Bill to deliver resources to ICE and border patrol:
According to DHS, Soliman, this violent, sick individual who did this attack over the weekend, applied for a tourist visa in 2022. He applied for asylum, and he’s been living in the US on an expired visa since March of 2023. If you apply Democrat logic to this case, Soliman was one of their constituents. Under their [Democrat] framing, he was just a Colorado man, right? When you see Democrats ramping up attacks on ICE agents, storming ICE detention facilities, calling for the dismantlement of ICE, just know that this is who they’re defending. This is the result.
Fortunately, President Trump has quickly slammed the border shut by simply enforcing existing law. This Administration needs the resources to detain, process, and deport the millions of dangerous illegals who President Biden welcomed into the country. This is why we need the One Big Beautiful Bill. One of the many reasons for President Trump’s desk as quickly as possible to sign in a law because it, among the other features in the bill, includes $45 billion to expand ICE detention capacity and a billion dollars to hire 200 immigration judges and to expand immigration courtroom space. There’s a billion dollars in there to hire 2,700 new ICE Office of Principal Legal Advisor attorneys to expedite removal proceedings and $14 billion for air and ground transportation, sufficient to support at least one million removals per year. We need to go find the other Soliman’s and get then out of America. That’s what this bill will do. We must get it signed in law as soon as possible.
On codifying DOGE cuts:
Yesterday, the House did receive the rescissions package from the White House, and we were happy to receive it. It’s going to claw back $9.4 billion of wasteful spending. $8.3 billion of that is in the foreign aid, USAID, abuses area, and $1.1 billion from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. These are common sense cuts, and the American people are behind them. I’ll tell you why. In the Corporation of Public Broadcasting space, NPR refused to cover the Hunter Biden laptop story, they repeatedly insisted that COVID-19 did not originate in a lab, and they ran stories defending looting during the “summer of love.” Its CEO admitted that she regards truth as a harmful distraction from NPR’s objectives. PBS produced a movie titled Real Boy, which celebrates a transgender teen’s transition. This is all with taxpayer dollars. PBS has featured drag queens in programming for little kids. There is no reason for any media organization to be singled out to receive federal funds, especially those that appear to have so little regard for the truth.
On the foreign aid front, we’re cutting things like $6 million for “net zero cities” in Mexico, $4 million for sedentary migrants in Columbia–whatever that means, $3 million for Iraqi Sesame Street, and $2 million for teaching young children how to make “environmentally friendly reproductive health decisions.” We’re not making this stuff up. A million dollars for voter ID in Haiti, yet they oppose voter ID here. This rescissions package is the manifestation of the DOGE effort, which has transformed the way American people view government, and it’s going to ultimately ensure greater accountability in government going forward.
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