Hello everybody, and thank you for tuning in to the weekly report, a pro-liberty speaker.

Louisiana, Republican Mike Johnson, has been chosen as the new speaker of the House of Representatives,

ending the three-week drama.

Representative Johnson has a reputation as a fiscal and social conservative.

He has at times opposed funding the Ukraine War, suggesting he may be open to non-interventionist arguments,

or at least unwilling to give the military industrial complex a blank check.

However, he also supports giving Israel whatever it needs to defeat Hamas.

Speaker Johnson has suggested that another short-term continuing resolution to avoid a government shutdown may be necessary

to ensure the House is not pressured into passing an omnibus spending bill at the end of the year.

He has said he wants to pass individual spending bills through the House.

This could help restrain spending.

However, Speaker Johnson should not trade away the leverage a potential shutdown gives fiscal conservatives.

A speaker who is truly committed to individual liberty and who understands the urgent need to cut government spending

would be willing to shut down the government if that is what it takes to get Congress to make real spending cuts.

This hypothetical pro-liberty speaker would refuse to bring any bill increasing any spending in any area to the House floor

unless it offsets the spending increases with equal or greater spending cuts.

A pro-liberty speaker would work to repeal unconstitutional federal programs, agencies, and departments.

Instead of replacing Obamacare with Obamacare Light, a pro-liberty speaker would work to repeal all federal intervention in health care

and restore patient control via tax credits and expanded health savings accounts.

Instead of no child left behind, a pro-liberty speaker would work to shut down the unconstitutional department of education.

A pro-liberty speaker would form coalitions with anti-war progressives to defend all unconstitutional military operations,

bring the troops home, dramatically cut spending on medial tourism, and forbid funding for wars not declared by Congress.

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