Johnson Speaks to Reporters in Gaggle

Despite unrelenting predictions from many of you today in the press that we would fail this week, we did exactly the opposite. I'm really glad to tell you that House Republicans pulled together and delivered some major pieces of legislation and huge priorities for the country in the last few days. Let me give you a couple of examples. We passed the Farm Bill, as you know, a major achievement delivering real relief and certainty for our rural America and for all Americans. This is the first time Congress has done that since 2018. It's been quite a while, but we got it done. We also made certain that the House is going to be able to have an up or down vote on a date certain on the E-15 issue, which is, you know, is a big priority for a lot of us. And most importantly of all, of all the things we got done this week, we got the budget resolution security and immigration will continue today and well into the future, despite Democrat attempts to reopen our borders and protect criminal illegal aliens from removal. The net results passing our reconciliation bill said ICE and CBP are funded for three years. Democrats got absolutely nothing for their political charade. We repeatedly offered in good faith, I want to point out, remind everybody to negotiate on funding these agencies, but ultimately the sad and actually shocking truth is there's not a Democrat in the House or the Senate that believes border security and immigration enforcement should exist at all. By word and deed, Democrats have made clear their desire to defund both of those critical functions of our government. We also passed the Pfizer reauthorization to ensure that the administration is armed with the best possible intelligence to continue eliminating terrorists and defending our homeland. We pray that the Senate can now pass our Pfizer bill as quickly as possible. And you know, they're deliberating over that right now. I just want to say that sometimes the process around here is cumbersome. That's the way this works. But in spite of our razor thin, historically small majority, House Republicans continue to deliver for the American people. You will continue to do that for the remainder of the year. And that is a large reason why we are going to win the midterms so that the grownups can stay in charge here. Take a few questions. Isn't this a solution on DHS that could have been? It could. Here's why. You heard me trash the bill when it came over the first time because it literally in the morning. And what it would do is, of course, orphan and immigration enforcement. And if you might remember, and Democrats are upset about it, so they wanted to leave that out. They wanted to orphan these two critical agencies that are under the umbrella of Homeland Security. I remind everyone, FEMA and the Secret Service and TSA and all these other agencies. But the Democrats said, we'll do some of that, but we're not going to fund border security. And we're not That's absurd. We threw a fit and we had to. We held the Homeland bill because we had to ensure that they could not isolate and eliminate those two critical agencies. We are getting those done now. Passed the resolution first. That was critically important for us to do to ensure, even though Democrats are unwilling to do it. So now that that box is checked, we're allowed then to proceed and go through with the rest of it. This will relieve pressure from the Department of Homeland Security, Secretary Mullen. I spoke to the president of TSA. Everybody will get their paychecks now. We'll get moving forward and then we will finish the work and finally get, again, for three years with no crazy Democrat reforms, we will fund border security as soon as we return for the work session when that bill is finalized. My concern, I hope that they're going to do it. We sent over an authorization that was with the minor, with the anti-CBDC measure on it. These are very simple things that the vast majority of Congress agrees with, and they should expire today. And so we're calling on them to do the job, pass the House's bill and get this done. Check the last buck. They're not going to take the House. Well, we're going to see. They don't seem to have another alternative. We'll find out. I don't know who you're quoting. Okay, so look, this is they often making sauce if you don't want to see it made. And sometimes it's a it's an ugly process. Sometimes it's a fun process. I've never broken my word to a single person in this building. Nobody can tell you that he because sometimes when you have a small margin, as we do, we're currently working on one vote. People have, you know, different ideas, different priorities about very contentious pieces of legislation. The equations that we saw on legislation this week were virtually impossible. Many of you said it couldn't be done. Let's use patience and frankly, try to get the disparate priorities. Sometimes we have to give up preferences because we are in a large body on some of these bills, some of the ones that I just named for you. They're so complicated and so complex that you literally had irreconcilable demands on either side of the House Republican Congress. And so it takes a long time to work through that and get people to consensus. But we do that patiently. We do as we as we must and we ultimately deliver. Don't doubt the House Republican majority. We always deliver for the American people. We did it again in spite of the challenges and we continue to do that.