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🗓️ 18 March 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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In this episode, Tony Perkins, host of This Week On The Hill, and Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, discuss the Republicans' success in passing a continuing resolution to fund the government through September. Johnson highlights the party's newfound unity and leverage, attributing their achievements to a cohesive team effort and President Trump's involvement, as they prepare for an ambitious FY 26 budget cycle aimed at reducing fraud, waste, and abuse while advancing an America First agenda.
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0:00.0 | Thanks for listening to the Town Hall Review with Hugh Hewitt podcast, bringing to you the best voices on the stories and issues that matter. |
0:07.5 | Here's another piece I'll trust you enjoy. |
0:10.5 | Joining us now is the Speaker of the House, Louisiana Congressman Mike Johnson. |
0:14.7 | Mr. Speaker, welcome to this week on Capitol Hill. |
0:18.0 | Hey, Tony, great to be with you. |
0:19.7 | All right, some are recognizing your marshalling of all the Republicans in the House to pass a |
0:24.1 | continuing resolution and the Democrats having to accept it as nothing short of miraculous. |
0:31.6 | Well, I don't know about that, but I'll tell you what, it's been a lot of hard work. |
0:35.4 | We kept the team together. |
0:37.1 | The House Republicans are building muscle memory now for winning. |
0:40.6 | We have a string of wins under our belt, and it's good to be underestimated, Tony. |
0:45.2 | You know, the Hill Press Corps and the Democrat Party and the mainstream media every day, right, my eulogy, right, our eulogy, they say we're going to, you know, go to go to |
0:54.9 | loggerheads against one another and the Republicans can't stand together. But we have, and we will |
0:59.3 | continue to do that because we are going to deliver the America First Agenda for the American |
1:03.7 | people. And this is just another sign of that. Look, I tell you what, we had all the Republicans |
1:07.9 | stand together, all the Democrats, save for one on each side, |
1:11.8 | voted to shut the government down in the House. But we got that bill done. We are going to fund |
1:16.6 | the government through the end of the fiscal year, September. And this will move the FY25 business |
1:21.7 | off the table, and it will move us on to FY26, which is the much more exciting prospect. That's when we will codify all the |
1:29.4 | doge cuts of fraud, waste abuse, the new revenue streams that President Trump and the administration |
1:33.9 | are bringing about. It's going to be a very different budgeting and appropriation cycle than we've |
1:38.4 | ever seen. And so we're excited about that. Chuck Schumer and the Democrats in the Senate had to do |
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