Speaker Johnson joined Fox News Sunday to discuss America 250 and the House Republican agenda
WASHINGTON — On Sunday morning, Speaker Johnson joined Fox News Sunday with Shannon Bream to discuss Democrats embracing communism and socialism ahead of the midterm election. Speaker Johnson also discussed House Republicans’ efforts to codify the SAVE America Act into law.
“These people are saying it out loud. They want to abolish all borders. They want to abolish all prisons. They want to defund the police. They want to abolish the United States Senate. They want to pack the Supreme Court. They want the government to take over control of all production,” Speaker Johnson said. “It’s common sense versus communism.”
Watch the full interview here.
On Democrats embracing radical, communist candidates:
This is a serious threat to our whole system of government. These are Marxists. It’s communism, socialism. Those are deviations of Marxism, which begins with the opposite premise of America. And it is a serious threat to us. These people are saying it out loud. They want to abolish all borders. They want to abolish all prisons. They want to defund the police. They want to abolish the United States Senate. They want to pack the Supreme Court. They want the government to take over control of all production. This is communism; it has led to the murder of innocent people, tens of millions of them in the 20th century alone. We have to fight this. We’re no longer just in an election cycle. We were saying it was common sense versus crazy, now it’s common sense versus communism and everybody needs to wake up.
On the SAVE America Act:
The big urgency is to get SAVE America passed. The President has that as a top priority, and so do I. We passed it three times in the house. We’re going to try one more time on a budget reconciliation bill… If we can get proof of citizenship and photo ID to vote, that eliminates so much of the problem, all the fraud and everything that everybody’s concerned about in our elections, particularly, frankly, in these blue states.
On a third budget reconciliation bill:
I’ve spoken to Leader Thune about this quite a bit and individual senators. I think some of that lack of belief there is based upon what they think may be in it. What we’re planning to do is send over a bill that will be irresistible for any Republican; an incredible piece of legislation that will get the job done. Meaning that we will continue to increase affordability, we’ll reduce fraud, waste and abuse in government and we’ll secure elections. Every Republican would vote for that if, if packaged correctly. And that’s what we’re planning to do right now.
On attaching the SAVE America Act to other legislation:
I’ve had the conversation with [Rep. Luna] many times and with our Senate colleagues as well. What she was saying, just frankly isn’t true. What we did was a MIRV, and that’s a technical term to say we merged the NDAA, the National Defense Authorization Act with the SAVE America Act that we passed back in February unanimously with all Republican votes. That puts it in the base text. It merges the two bills into one and it would have transmitted to the Senate that way. So, what she was saying just simply inaccurate, I tried to explain that to her on the floor. We all want the same thing. She’s a team player… we’re going to get this done.
The problem is there’s only 53 Republicans in the Senate, and to do substantive legislation, you need 60 votes. There is zero chance, Shannon, that seven Democrats are going to help us on election integrity, because as the President rightfully says all the time, they count on this, I think some of them allow for some cheating in elections because they can’t win on their policies.
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