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EXCLUSIVE: Speaker Mike Johnson on the Shutdown, Marxist Dems, & Why Gen Z is Getting BASED
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Well, it's been officially a full day and some change of the US Government being shut down. Dun dun dun. And all you're hearing about it on the mainstream media and social media alike is that this is all Republicans fault and particularly the President of the United States, Donald Trump's fault. All of the messaging I'm seeing from cable news all the way down to paid left wing shills on TikTok are repeating the exact same scripted talking points. And the left is trying to use the most ridiculous ways possible to convince you that Republicans are the bad guys. Withholding government workers paychecks. They're spending asinine amounts of money trying to figure out how to how to participate in the meme wars. For example, with the Democrats actual Twitter account posting this cat video to tell you all about the ins and outs of the government shutdown.
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Watch this.
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Republican and Democrat kiddies cannot agree on what should be funded. Democrat kiddies want you to have health care. Republican kiddies do not. Republican kiddies control the Senate House and the White House. So they're using that to cut your health care and give money to billionaires. Democrat kitty tries to negotiate, but Republican kitty keeps running away. He has a vacation to get to. Oh, suddenly the money you pay for your health insurance has tripled. Thanks Republicans.
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Thanks Republicans. Okay, I don't usually like to give free advice on the meme wars to the left because their content is just so cringy and so bad that I like to let it speak for itself. But just who? Whoever is out there. This unpaid intern in a closet somewhere.
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At the DNC coming up with this video.
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Rule number one of meme warfare is don't make your enemies cuter than you in the meme. The Donald Trump cat is the cutest thing I've ever seen. Please give us more memes. It's reminding me of Gavin Newsom trying to troll JD Vance repeatedly over the last 48 hours or so by memeing him as a minion on cable television. And then the fat JD meme. Do these people not realize we like.
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The memes more than they do?
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Hello. And it doesn't just stop at meme warfare. It simplified down to the most ridiculous basic talking points of Republicans don't want you to have health care. Which is obviously not true. They're paying your favorite left wing influencers to say the same thing on TikTok. Here is the infamous Harry Sisson telling you exactly how the government got shut down.
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We have some major news. The United States government has officially shut down. It's 12:01 in the morning, east coast time. And the government has officially run out of money. Now, this is entirely Donald Trump and the Republican Party's fault. I mean, remember, they control the entire government. Donald Trump is president. The Republicans control the Senate and the House of Representatives. And they couldn't keep the government open. Democrats were simply saying, hey, let's get rid of these Medicaid cuts. Let's expand access to the Affordable Care act so more Americans have health care. And the Republicans are saying, no, we want the tax cuts for the millionaires and the billionaires to remain. And then scream, screw everybody that wants health care. And now, because of the shutdown, crucial federal workers will go without pay. People that work at the TSA and all of our different airports who do crucial work, the National Guard, who Donald Trump has deployed randomly to cities across the United States, they will go without pay as long as the government is shut down. Crucial services will now be shut down as well, and the American people will not be able to access them. The government has shut down under Donald Trump. It's the first one since 2019, when Donald Trump was president. The first time this guy calls himself the master negotiator and can't even keep the country open.
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Harry, I got to give it to you and to every other influencer thinking they are the so called experts on government shutdowns and the budgetary process. I don't blame you for your complete lack of education on American civics because let's be honest, the American education system has dramatically failed every one of us within generation zone. But A, it's not Donald Trump's job to pass the budget, it's Congress's job. And B, you can't start a video blaming everything on Donald Trump and the Republican Party and then five seconds later say, oh, also all the Democrats are trying to band together to expand health care and expand Medicaid. You just negated your own point. So he outlined it perfectly there, essentially how we got here. And I know it's been confusing because of how the media is covering this and our lack of understanding of the budgetary process is that we had a status quo, we had an agreed upon situation for our budget. We were just running out of time to pass the legislation. And I think this warrants some more explaining. So we'll get to that later in the episode. But for the very first time ever, the leader of the Senate Democrats in his career, Chuck Schumer, decided to vote against keeping the government open because he disliked what the Republicans were able to pass a few weeks ago saying it shouldn't be up to American citizens to cover the cost of health care for illegal immigrants. Way back when, in the one big beautiful bill, we took care of that problem and got rid of that spending from the American taxpayer. And now today, they are holding you, the American people and government workers hostage because they are being blackmailed by the Marxist wing of their own party on the left to provide free services unilaterally to illegal immigrants. Holding up the budget process in the wake. I am honestly just sick and tired, frankly of the ridiculous amount of propaganda and lies in the mainstream media about the people who are in charge, about who is serving the American people appropriately, about how these processes even work. So as someone who is very much not the budgetary expert or even the legislative expert on all things on Capitol Hill, I, I decided for today's episode that we would take a trip down the road and ask the real experts what's going on with the government shutdown and what we can expect moving forward as Congress continues to serve the American people. Today on the Isabel Brown show, we are so, so excited to be welcoming our friend and one of our favorite members of Congress on the Hill, speaker of the House Mike Johnson. But before we drive over across town to Capitol Hill to speak to our friend Speaker Johnson, I first have to tell you how grateful I am last night and that my freezer was stocked with our amazing friends from Good Ranchers. I never have to worry about what's going to be on the table for dinner with my very hectic schedule and my very, very busy family. And all of that is thanks to amazing American meats brought to you from American Farms and ranchers at Good Ranchers. But this fall, Good Ranchers challenges all of us to get back to the table, not just me and my family. And it truly has changed everything. Every Wednesday night, my family is making it happen. No phones, no work emails, just us connecting over a real meal and sett one day aside out of the week to prioritize family time together, especially with how busy both of our work schedules are, has made a huge, huge impact in my marriage and my relationship with my baby. Here's what makes it possible. Good ranchers delivers 100% American high quality meat right to our door. Everything comes pre portioned and triple trimmed. So even on my craziest days, like yesterday, I can have dinner ready in minutes instead of spending an hour prepping. And get this, Good Ranchers is giving away free holiday hamster. Oh, that reminds me of that movie Honey Baked Ham. Baby, let's Go every week just for joining their back to the table challenge like my family is. All you have to do is share a photo of your Wednesday night dinner on Instagram Stories, hashtag back to the table and tag at Good Ranchers. It has been an amazing time to.
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Reconnect with my family over a good.
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Meal and that's where all of our best conversations are happening around the family dinner table. That was true when I was growing up and I cannot wait to pass that value on to my daughter as well. You can visit good ranchers.com and use my code ISABEL for $40 off plus free meat for life when you subscribe. That's ISABEL for $40 off plus free meat for life. Goodranchers.com let's all get back to the table. Speaker Johnson, thank you so much for.
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Taking a few minutes out of your very, very busy schedule. For young people today. The media is very much twisting the narrative of what a government shutdown even is and how we got here. So for our viewers who might be the average 18 year old that didn't get the world's best civics education, can.
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You explain what's going on this week?
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I don't blame anybody for not understand that. It's kind of complicated. But let me make it really simple, okay? Go back to the 1974 Budget Control act, okay? There's a federal law that says the way that Congress is supposed to spend taxpayer dollars is very with, with great stewardship. Okay? You're supposed to do 12 separate appropriations bills every year. And why is that important? Because if you divide all the federal funding into 12 separate categories, then you can accurately debate it and have dialogue and have thoughtful conversation. Gee, what is the best use of taxpayer dollars? We want to spend it efficiently and effect. You divide all the government into 12 different categories and you do that. Here's the problem. Congress hasn't done that for a long, long time. Because Congress has a tendency to not do its duty and responsibility because it's hard work. So what they do instead is they kick the can down the road till the end of the year, usually right about Christmas time. And there's a giant omnibus spending bill. You heard the term omnibus, right? And that's where they just cram everything in all at once. The bill is sometimes 2,000 pages long. No one's read it, understood it, not debated it. And it's massive amounts of money, trillions of dollars all at once. That is bad stewardship. Okay? So I became speaker almost two years ago in October of 23. I was not expecting to have the job. And I was one of. I'm a fiscal conservative and I'm worried about Congress being irresponsible with taxpayer funds. And so I made it a commitment after I became speaker that I would force the muscle memory back to Congress to make them do what we call regular order. And that is 12 separate appropriations bills going through both chambers and working through it. It's taken a long time to do that because it's like pushing a boulder up a hill trying to force people into this job. But the good news, we did it. And this year, the House Appropriations Committee, in a bipartisan fashion, using our Republican majority, we got 12 separate appropriations bills done through committee. We got three of them passed off the floor. The Senate, for the first time in years, passed three separate bills off the floor on their side. The problem is those three bills don't match up. Exactly. So what happens in our process is that if there's a difference between the two chambers, then you have a subset of members of both chambers who go to what's called a conference committee to work out the differences. That's it. They finish that up. They send it to the president for signature. We're in the middle of that process. Okay. And it's a big thing, a big achievement to get Congress back to it. But we ran out of time because the end of the fiscal year is September 30, not the end of the calendar year. So here we are on the eve of that. So what do we do? Well, we have the majority in both chambers. Republicans are in charge. We're sensible, we're responsible. We're efficient, effective government people. So we said, let's do a short term stopgap funding measure called a criminal. We call it a continuing resolution to keep the government open for seven more weeks to November 21st. Why? We're just trying to buy time. We just want to have a little more time for the appropriators to finish this process and get it done. Get the bills to President Trump's desk and get them done. And that's a simple thing. Chuck Schumer and all the Democrats here have given speeches for decades about how you can't shut the government down and you got to keep it open. Suddenly he just changed his tune, though, and so they voted against it. Now, they've done that a few times. Leader Thune in the Senate is going to continue to put the House's bill because we passed it in the House two weeks ago. We had one, one Democrat join us. The rest of them voted to shut the Government down. But we got it done. We sent it to the Senate, and that's where it sits. So here's the problem. The clock ran out September 30th. So at midnight on October 1st, you know, today we shut the government down. Now what's the problem? That's a serious problem because they're real Americans affected by this nonsense. Two questions that ought to be answered there. Number one, why is Chuck Schumer doing this? Why did he change his tune? The guy's been in Washington, like, longer than you and I, Almost longer than I've been alive, okay? And he's always been against this. He said it was dangerous and we'd be derelict in our duty. And how could you crush the American people when suddenly he's doing it? Here's the answer. J.D. vance said it today. I've said it. We've all pointed it out. It's a good question, and the answer's simple. Chuck Schumer is running scared of the far left base of his party. He's up for reelection in a couple years, and he's afraid that AOC is gonna challeng because the Marxists are taking over the party. Now, Chuck Schumer's a far left legislator, but he's not quite liberal enough for all of them. So he's got to show a fight. He's got to show that he's fighting Trump. So he's decided to shut the government down. Here's what happens. Real people get hurt. Yeah, I mean, you're talking about the WIC program, right? Women Infants and Children nutrition supplemental program. It's not funded anymore because we don't have the ability to send the money because they just dried it up. You got soldiers, TSA agents, border patrol agents who do have to go to work, but they're not going to get paid. It's a real problem. I mean, if somebody's, let's say there's a young soldier who's deployed overseas right now, left his young wife and two small children at home, they're not going to get their monthly paycheck. They don't get it until all this is resolved. You have real problems with fema. For example, we're in the middle of hurricane season. I'm from Louisiana. This is serious business. As we sit here today, there are two hurricanes off the eastern seaboard of the United States. If your flood insurance lapses or if you buy a new home and you need a new insurance policy, you can't get that right now because FEMA just got shut down for Those services, all sorts of veterans, healthcare. Yep. We run the suicide prevention programs every day through this. They just got shut down. I mean, this is this real stuff. People get harmed and it's, it's totally unnecessary. And Chuck Schumer's doing it for politics.
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What specifically are some of these initiatives that Chuck Schumer is pushing for?
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Well, these. When we say big government liberals, I mean these guys are taking to the next level. Okay. Marxism, of course, you know, communism and socialism are sort of branches of that underlying philosophy. Right. Socialism is you just want the government to take over everything, basically, and all means of production and control and everything. That's what they're moving towards. So instead of the simple seven week stopgap funding measure, a clean continuing resolution, clean by. We said we didn't add any of our Republican or conservative priorities to it. We just status quo for seven more weeks, really. Just buying time. And instead of just voting on that, which he always has through his whole career, and they did 13 times during the Biden administration, okay. Over the last previous four years, Chuck Schumer votes no and instead he sends us a counter proposal. Well, guess what's in that? He wants to add 1.5 trillion with a T dollars in new spending on a seven week stopgap funding measure. And included in that, they want to make sure they give health care to illegal aliens again.
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Naturally, yes.
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Just stop. And they want to claw back $50 billion that we put into a rural hospital fund to prop those up because many of them are in real financial straits. And people say, why would he do that? Well, you think about it, a lot of those rural counties and areas are in red states. I mean, you have to wonder what kind of thought went into this. They just completely overplayed their hand and it's absurd. Right before I walked into here, I was talking to the. I've been on the phone with the President for the last hour and he and I were talking. He said, mike, I can't believe, I can't believe how crazy this is. There's nothing for us to negotiate because the President likes to make a deal. Right, yep. There's. Mr. President, there is nothing to make a deal with. There's nothing we can get. We didn't put any of our priorities. There's nothing I can take back to sweeten the deal. He goes, I can't believe Schumer did that. I can't either. But he painted himself into a corner.
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That's the part that I think is so fascinating to me, is I keep trying to ask myself and give the benefit of the doubt here to the left on any sort of political legitimacy to this game whatsoever. And yet I don't think they're aware of where the average American, particularly young Americans, are at right now, especially critical of big government policies. You know, I'm a very close friend of Charlie Kirk. In the last few weeks has been incredibly fascinating, obviously heartbreaking as well, but so stirring to see how young people are responding to this and becoming more generally conservative and skeptical of big government, and yet they seem completely unaware of that from the left side of the aisle here.
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Well, two things explain it. Trump derangement Syndrome is very real. You know, they just. They can't. They can't countenance him and everything he says or does. They're instinctively for the opposite, no matter how crazy. Right. And then you had the woke progressive left that effectively took over the party a few years back, and they're driving that party right off a cliff. This is not your grandfather's Democratic Party. Right. This is a far different. They actually are Marxists. In fact, they're literally going to elect a Marxist as the mayor of America's largest city in a few weeks. It's a stunning development. And we've been mourning Charlie's loss. He was a friend of mine as well as, you know, and I think I spoke at four vigils for him over the last couple weeks. I was speaking at the Kennedy center, which is the one we did here in DC forum and there and at all the vigils I spoke at and of course at the event in Arizona. I know, Emmy, you were there. It's amazing the numbers of people that turned out and the numbers of young people who are both so broken because they feel so close to Charlie. You know, his voice is ubiquitous and his image. They're all involved in turning point and many more want to be know. So they're mourning that, but at the same time, they feel like there's this sort of burning desire to just get engaged and get involved. Right. The Charlie Kirk effect, we're calling it, and it's real. And what I said I summarized in all the comments that I made. I said, you know, if you. If we're going to honor the life and legacy of Charlie, the best thing we can do is live like Charlie did. Right. And two things. You advance his principles and you, you adopt his approach. Yeah, the approach was win in love. He's trying to win over hearts and minds. And he was never hateful. Charlie was like me. Mike Huckabee said one time he's running for governor of Ark. Arkansas many years ago. He said, you know, I'm a conservative, but I'm not mad at anybody. I mean, that's our approach. Right. We're going to be winsome warriors, but you have to be prepared to give an answer for the hope that you have, as scripture says, and be ready for those debates. And Charlie was. But he never hated anybody on the other side of the table. That kind of message, the hopeful message, the things that he articulated, faith, family, freedom, patriotism, American exceptionalism. People respond to that. And it's, it's in. In one sense, in my view, it's a, it's a response to the woke progressive NIHI that just leads to emptiness and despair and hopelessness. It's an offer of hope and eternity and real truth. And that's what people are yearning for, you know. But if we present that in a political context and we show how those things connect, which Charlie was an expert at doing, now you're really cooking and people get engaged for that.
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We're starting to see that generational shift in the Charlie Kirk effect here on the Hill. I know there's one turning point USA alum who's a member of Congress, Representative Luna, who was quite remarkable. We go way back to see her journey has been absolutely incredible. How do you think that's gonna impact the future of the party here on the Hill? I know generationally young people are all about big government sucks and socialism sucks.
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So you're seeing that tug of war.
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Happen even on the right side of the political aisle today. How do you think that impacts the shutdown and your agenda moving forward?
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There's an old saying, if the people will lead, the leaders will follow. Right. And so what you'll see is, and you've already seen, inspires more backbone and confidence in people who actually believe those things. Were reluctant to talk about it. I became speaker a couple years ago. The first thing I did was I did an interview. Well, I did my floor speech and I did an interview with Hannity and we just go live that night. And I mean, this is unrehearsed and unprepared because I wasn't expecting to get the job. And he says, what? People don't know anything about Mike Johnson? He said, what could you say? How could you summarize, you know, what you believe, your philosophy? And I said, I didn't think, I just, I didn't have talking points for it. I said, well, Sean, I don't know, it's pretty simple for me. If you want to know what I think about anything, go dust off the Bible on your shelf. That's pretty, you know, I'm a Bible believing Christian, you know, I had no idea what a big landmine that was. And they came after me with sharp knives, you know. But some of us have always spoken like that. We've been trying to bring back those principles. Charlie was what I loved about our friend was he liked the temporal policy debates. He was about the temporal things, but he was much more about the eternal things, the permanent things, you know, and I try to, and I have always tried to weave that into everything we do. And now more and more people are seeing it that way. And you've heard people as high ranked as the Vice president say in the last few days, I've spoken more about my faith in Christ for over the last two weeks than I had, you know, ever before. Yeah. And everybody's doing that now. So it's so refreshing to us because we're walking around like, wow, we're not the freaks anymore. Like, oh, this is the thing. Everybody, welcome to the party. And more, more people are more, I think, you know, open about what they really believe and what is the, what is the core foundational principle behind the policies that we're advancing? That's what wins over the hearts and minds. And we have a real opportunity to do that now.
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Last question for you.
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If you're giving a message to the next generation for what to expect out of this shutdown and in general, what to expect out of this Congress, what can we expect to see in the next few days and months?
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Well, you can make an argument really objectively, the first six months of this Congress was the most productive success with any of any in memory maybe of all time, going back to the American Revolution. Why? Because we had unified government. So we had President Trump in the White House and you have Republicans in charge of the Senate and the House because we got a mandate in the election in 24 and we acted on that. So we did the big beautiful bill and this marquee legislative achievements with the smallest margin in US history had a one vote margin for 90 of the first hundred days, we have defied expectation because the Republicans stayed unified. And my message to all my colleagues is as long as we can do that, we are unlimited in the potential of what we can achieve. So we're planning more of those big marquee pieces of legislation. The big beautiful bill, the working families tax cuts bill, we call it, was a reconciliation bill, which you can do. You don't need 60 votes in the Senate, which is the normal case. You can do it with a bare majority. So we're planning reconciliation 2.0 right now for the fall. I'd like to do a third one in the spring before we're done with this Congress. And then we have some other marquee things that we're doing in addition to all the things the President's done with executive orders that we're codifying, we're putting into written law, so regulatory reform, tax cuts and pro growth policies for the economy, but then also changing the size and shape and scope of government all at once. I mean, this is something that many of us have been working on for our whole lives, you know, and we have marquee achievements for all these things, but there's more to come. And then we go into the election year, the midterm election next year. I just literally got off the phone with the President and he said, mike, I can't believe. Sorry, I'm doing his voice.
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You're pretty good at it.
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So we'll keep only twice in 90 years, you know, the president's picked up seats in the fish midterm. I said, but you're going to do it, sir. We're going to define history. Lots of reasons for that. But we had a demographic shift in 2024. We'll keep a lot of those voters. We have a favorable election map. There's way more House Democrats sitting right now as we're talking in districts that President Trump won than that Harris won. Republicans and Harris seats. And we've got a favorable map. The Democrats are in free fall. And the fourth factor that none of us saw coming is the aftermath of Charlie's passing and the energy that that puts in the hearts and minds of people, young people who want to be engaged, they understand what's happening, they want to take their country back. And we're presenting to them an opportunity to do that. I think that has a big effect in the midterms that nobody saw coming. God has a way of working all things together for good. Charlie used to preach that, and he believed it. And we do his passing was so untimely and tragic and unspeakable to me. In some ways it's still doesn't seem real.
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Yeah, but.
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But God is going to use that. He already is. And there's such great hope in that. And Charlie is watching all this and he knows. And that's a great comfort to all of us.
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Well, as you know, we've been the.
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Apologists over here on our show for the fact that Gen Z will save America and we are incredibly excited to keep cheering you on and supporting everything you're doing to serve the American people. Thank you for your service to our country and for bringing back home the message that big government sucks.
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Congrats for all your success. It's well earned and we're excited. Thank you.
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Thank you again to Speaker Johnson for taking the time to join us and make sure you guys are subscribed to.
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The channel to get tomorrow's episode and every episode thereafter. We can't wait to be spending some more time here on Capitol Hill to unveil all of the great plans to serve the American people the best way our elected officials know how.
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