Mike Johnson

The reason we are in trouble is because over 74 percent of federal spending is on autopilot, mandatory spending,” Johnson reportedly recently told a Louisiana radio station. “That’s your entitlement programs like Medicare, Medicaid and…

I think it makes a lot of sense the more the evidence comes out, the more we know they really were sham impeachments.

I think it makes a lot of sense the more the evidence comes out, the more we know they really were sham impeachments.

The reason we are in trouble is because over 74 percent of federal spending is on autopilot, mandatory spending.

The largest spending items, the reason we’re in trouble, are because over 74 percent of federal spending is on autopilot — mandatory spending, that is, your entitlement programs like Medicare, Medicaid and things like Social Security —…

I think it makes a lot of sense the more the evidence comes out, the more we know they really were sham impeachments.

Everyone knows beyond a shadow of a doubt that there is rampant waste, fraud, and abuse throughout government programs.

We have a plan to do that next year, and it’s critical, because we’re at $40 trillion-plus in debt. At some point, you get into a hole so deep you can’t climb out of it, so desperate times call for desperate measures.

The reason we’re in trouble is because over seventy-four percent of federal spending is on autopilot—mandatory spending, that is your entitlement programs like Medicare, Medicaid, and things like Social Security—they have to be adjusted…

They have to be adjusted and fixed.

The reason we have not had a mass casualty event like 9/11 since that great tragedy is because we have this statute, and today the Democrats in the House just voted it down.

It is shameful, and it is very, very dangerous.

It stinks to high heaven.

It’s long overdue. We have to fund border security and immigration enforcement, and it’s sad that Republicans have to do it on our own.

What he was saying is: ‘It’s going to be great to have that number and compare it to what comes next, when we get these situations resolved, that’ll be a fun thing to consider.’

The president is laser-focused on the domestic economic situation

We’re going to ask every member here to do the right thing.

I'm not saying it's rigged, I'm saying it stinks to high heaven, and everybody knows that.

We have three full years of funding.

Some of these efforts are so diabolical and so far upstream that it’s impossible to prove, but I think everybody knows instinctively, something is wrong here, and that’s a concern.

We have to fund border enforcement and immigration enforcement, and everybody here knows that, so they're going to have to put their personal preferences aside to get the job done.

I believe that it is off the table for consideration.

We're working on that final piece. The entire world has an interest in the Strait of Hormuz being reopen for commerce. That what he's working on.

The entire world has an interest in the Strait of Hormuz being reopened for commerce. That's what he's working on.

I am, all of us, are calling on our allied nations and friends — the Arab states in the region, and NATO partners and everyone else.