WASHINGTON — On Day 30 of the Democrat Shutdown, Speaker Johnson held a press conference alongside the House Republican delegation from New York and House GOP Leadership to discuss America’s largest city preparing to hand the reins of power to a Marxist mayor. Speaker Johnson also addressed how Democrats have wholly capitulated to the Far-Left base of their party.
“Chuck Schumer is desperately trying to cling to power. Unfortunately, when you make decisions out of fear and political desperation, you have already lost control,” Speaker Johnson said. “And the new power center in the Democrat Party is one that should frighten every commonsense American. The radical socialist wing is rising, and it is led by people like AOC and Bernie Sanders.”
Watch Speaker Johnson’s full remarks here.
On Democrats embracing their radical, Far-Left base:
Right now, they’ve got a 34-year-old unproven, untested socialist who looks to be the next mayor. He may well be elected. Mamdani winning New York City would be the biggest win for the Marxists and the socialists in the history of this country. We have, to this point in nearly 250 years, been able to hold off those kinds of ideas. We’ve been clinging to the foundational principles of America, the ideas of individual freedom and limited government, and the rule of law and peace through strength and fiscal responsibility and free markets and human dignity. All those things are in jeopardy when the Marxists take over. And it’s the clearest sign yet that the Democrats’ radical Marxist wing is winning the battle for control of their party.
Look at where the energy is. This should be alarming to everyone around the country. Mamdani has of course called to defund the police, to abolish all prisons, to legalize prostitution. He lambasted the New York Police Department as a racist system. And you might have seen if you in the media are covering this, but there was a new video uncovered from 2023, just two years ago, and he said, quote, “We have to be clear, when the boot of the NYPD is on your neck, it’s been laced by the IDF.” Look, it’s a unique talent to merge one’s loathing for American law enforcement with their loathing for the Jewish people. But he’s managed to do it. New York is just the tip of the iceberg. It’s not isolated to America’s largest city. It’s other cities as well. Look at Seattle, where the leading candidate for mayor is an open socialist. Look at Minneapolis, where the sitting socialist mayor is facing a challenge from his Left flank. And look here in Congress where we have our own wing of Marxist acolytes serving here.
On the harmful consequences of the shutdown crossing into November:
Let me give you a list of things that this means for the American people. It means that tens of millions of American families will struggle to keep food on the table because the SNAP program benefits will run dry. It means that WIC assistance, that’s women, infants, and children nutrition programs, will be at risk of running dry. It means that Head Start centers, which serve 60,000 children nationwide, will be at risk of closure. Millions of federal workers, and we’ve listed them here every day, you’re talking about air traffic controllers and TSA agents and park rangers and Border Patrol agents, law enforcement around the country, the stewards of our nuclear arsenal will miss their paychecks. Thousands of flights by result will be canceled or delayed while our borders and national security will be directly jeopardized at a very dangerous moment in world history. And our country will lose tens of billions in gross domestic product. With each passing day, the pain gets more real.
On Democrats owning the consequences of the Marxist Mamdani agenda:
Obviously, Mamdani is a big issue here in the halls of Congress. Why? Because the second highest ranked Democrat in the country, Leader Jeffries, endorsed him. They’re making Mamdani a mainstream Democrat now. And this party has left the people. Of course, the press wants us to ignore Mamdani here. It’s an embarrassment because most of the press is on the side of the Democrats. They don’t want us to talk about that, but we have to because by endorsing Mamdani, Hakeem Jeffries has endorsed and co-owned his positions, his past statements, his Marxist playbook and everything else that that guy espouses. And so too does every single House Democrat who will be inviting their leader, Jeffries, to their campaigns and to their districts.
Next year, every single one of them at every campaign stop should be asked, what do you think about Mamdani? What do you think about his positions? While House Democrats court Marxists in New York, Senate Democrats have chosen to shut down the government over a totally clean, nonpartisan CR, it’s the first time in history, in the history of this country, that any party has done that: has had the audacity to shut the government down over a totally clean, nonpartisan funding measure bowing to the demands of their Far-Left base.
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