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Morning, Gloria and Even Grace, America. I'm Hugh Hewitt. Please begin today's program with the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Honorable Mike Johnson. Mr. Speaker, welcome back to the program.

Hello, my friend. It is great to hear your voice, and I really enjoyed watching you on Fox News today. Great commentary.

Well, I watched your press conference this morning, and when I was on Fox News, I just reiterated what you had to say, which is you've been there and done that. You passed the budget. I'm just checking in. It's been four or five hours. Have the Democrats moved in those four or five hours? No movement. I am so sad to tell you. They're inflicting real pain on real Americans, and they seem not to care. They're playing political games, as you have

explained so clearly as I tried to set out in my press conference this morning. The facts

are very clear, and as John Adams reminded us, facts are stubborn things. I mean, they're

there is an old Napoleon saying, Mr. Speaker, never interrupt your enemy when he is

destroying himself. Is that your plan right now just to wait?

Because they are destroying themselves.

Yes, and we take no pleasure in this because it's not just a cat and mouse game.

It's not a political contest between ours and Ds.

We've got millions of Americans being seriously, adversely affected right now. I mean, you've got

women, infants, and children that are not getting nutrition, you know, supplements, the

programs that the federal government pays for and they desperately need. We've got veterans'

health services being suspended. We have telehealth services for people who have disabilities

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