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right here. You're about to hear Isabel Brown with Speaker of the House Mike Johnson on the

government shutdown. What happened? Who's really responsible? And what comes next? This is the

Isabel Brown show. Speaker Johnson, thank you so much for 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 you explain what's going on this week? I don't blame anybody for not understanding

all 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 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 effectively, right?

So 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, okay? 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 until the end of the year, usually write 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. trillions of dollars all at once. That is bad stewardship. Okay. So I became speaker almost two years

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