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WIBC 9AM-Noon Podcast

Speaker Mike Johnson catches heat for the continuing resolution

WIBC 9AM-Noon Podcast

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4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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0:00.0

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0:03.5

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0:07.3

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0:08.8

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0:13.5

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0:14.9

Let's get into it.

0:16.2

The continuing resolution blew up on Speaker Johnson last night.

0:20.2

It is 1,147 pages long.

0:23.6

$110 billion plus. That is a continuing resolution. Let me say that again, that's

0:30.6

continuing resolution. That's not continuing. That's adding on. It's meant to avert the government shutdown, but let's just

0:39.5

talk about some of the things that it does include. Oh, yeah, the pay raise for members of Congress

0:44.7

going from $174,000 a year to $243,000 per year. Also includes, hey, a new football stadium in

0:54.1

Washington, D.C. 72 pages of

0:58.1

pandemic preparedness and response policy. Yeah, there's nothing like shutting down the

1:03.2

government for a football team that can't keep the same name, right? Yeah. Like, it's absolutely nuts

1:08.9

that a congressional pay raise is part of this.

1:12.6

$40,000.

1:13.6

Nobody else got a pay raise, right?

1:15.6

And if they shut down the government, they still get paid.

1:17.6

Right, exactly.

1:18.6

So they just want their money, don't they?

1:21.6

Also includes a renewal of the Global Engagement Center, which is currently being sued for censorship.

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