BREAKING NEWS: Speaker Johnson Issues Blunt Message To Biden Over Border Before State Of The Union

thank you for coming this morning the

American people have spoken they made

clear what we have known for months

president Donald J Trump is our

Republican nominee and will be the 47th

president of the United States his

America First agenda secured our borders

made America energy independent and

always puts the needs of the American

people first that is not the state of

the union we will hear from Joe Biden

this week because the American people

deeply understand that under Joe Biden's

failed presidency the state of the the

union is in crisis and this is a crisis

of Joe Biden's making as Ronald Reagan

famously asked us are you better off

today than you were four years ago the

answer for hardworking Americans across

the country is a resounding no whether

it's the catastrophic border crisis

ravaging our nation and leading to

tragic loss of life of American citizens

the painful B inflation causing

middleclass families to struggle to make

ends meet or our most precious Ally

Israel facing the bloodiest day since

the Holocaust as Joe Biden projects

weakness around the globe Joe Biden has

failed America and the American people

and at what will be his final State of

the Union Joe Biden and the White House

will desperately try to pass the buck

blame Congress and Sherk responsibility

in a desperate attempt to reset his

abysmal presidency but it won't work

because the American American people are

smart there is no reset button for Joe

Biden even the Democrats loyal

stenographers in the mainstream media

have been forced to acknowledge that Joe

Biden is a deteriorating president with

a failed record and polling in freef

Fall each of our house Republican

members will host a guest that

highlights the Joe Biden State of the

Union in crisis whether it's border

patrol officers like my guest from the

North Country Brandon Budlong or

families who have lost loved ones due to

Joe Biden's dangerous open border

policies each of our members who will

speak today will talk about uh this

these issues as we prepare to hear from

Joe Biden this week and one of the

members who understands the impact of

Joe Biden's crisis firsthand is

congresswoman Jen kagin from Virginia's

second congressional district

Jen thank you so much and thank you very

much for being here to listen to our

concerns today I'm congresswoman Jen

kagin and I proudly represent Virginia's

second congressional District I flipped

one of the toughest seats in the country

last year because I ran off being a mom

on a mission we ran off of those kitchen

table issues I'm among to four young

adults and I have a lot of questions

that I need Joe Biden to answer tomorrow

in his State of the Union Address I

worry every day about the financial

future for my children I worry about the

debt they're inheriting I worry about if

they're going to be able to buy a new

car or buy a new house if they're going

to be able to pay off their credit card

bills and still put food on their table

we know that Joe Biden has taken our

energy Independence and he's put

crippling regulation and mandates on our

businesses we're in an economic crisis

right now that has taken the American

dream away from so many families

including my own children I want him to

address these issues and I know that

other moms like me and dads and families

also care about their financial future

for their children I worry about my kids

safety every day I worry about my kids

when they're not with me I worry about

them when they're driving I worry about

them when they're out with their friends

or when they're at college and when

they're alone Joe Biden has made our

communities less safe he's done there

through a wide open border that I

visited twice we've got to put some

restrictions on our border we've seen

human trafficking fentel trafficking and

also sharp R and violent crimes just in

our own communities he has jeopardized

my children's safety we've seen him

jeopardizing our national security with

a wide open border we've got an increase

in Chinese Nationals and people on the

terrorist watch list coming across our

border every day I want them to respond

to my concerns about safety for my own

children and for the children um of all

Americans as a former Navy pilot Navy

spouse and now Navy Mom I'm especially

concerned about the future of our

country on the world stage it keeps me

up at night he's put not only my kids at

risk but all all of our military men and

women and their families at risk by

being weak on the world stage we've seen

what happened with the chaotic

withdrawal in Afghanistan what's

happened with Russia and Ukraine what's

happened with Iran backed Hamas and

Israel and we're seeing increased

ingression every single day in Southeast

Asia from China we know that the world's

involved in chaos and War and that's due

to Joe Biden's weak leadership

jeopardizing my children's safety

motivates me every single day Joe Biden

needs to respond to why our country

looks weak on the world stage and I need

him to respond not just with political

rhetoric and empty lies in an election

year I need him to respond with actual

facts and telling me what he's done and

what he's going to do to keep my

children safe and again the children of

so many Americans I will be watching

tomorrow night like so many other moms

and dads will be and and I hope our

concerns are answered thank you and now

it's a great honor for me to introduce

my colleague Mark Molano from New York

19 thank you Jan and thank you all for

being here this morning uh lak and

Riley's killer was arrested and released

in the state of New York in my home

state why because States like New York

Embrace Sanctuary City policies

Governors like Kathy hokel embolden a

national crisis undermine Public Safety

and threaten the very lives of our

neighbors because of their failure to

confront a crisis of their making

tomorrow I will welcome two Upstate

County Sheriffs from the state of New

York and while last evening there were

pundit on National Television laughing

about the fact that voters Across

America American families know and

understand that the crisis at our border

is undermining not only national Safety

but community and Public Safety

communities like those that I represent

and families like those I live with and

among know firsthand not only the pain

and the struggle that has been caused

because of an open border and the

policies and determination and decisions

of this president but because every day

in every way policies out of this

Administration and out of States like

New York continue to undermine Public

Safety and the ability of law

enforcement to provide for it tomorrow

those count County sheriffs will

stand in the halls of Congress hoping

that a president will acknowledge the

crisis he created that's at the heart of

this President Biden not only has

surrendered our Southern border to

cartels but he's engaged in an effort to

relocate Mass

relocate illegal immigrants across the

country making every state in America a

border state but more importantly

threatening not only

those very individual lives but the

lives of American families and

communities across this country tomorrow

the president could simply repeal his

executive orders that have fueled

emboldened and made worse this crisis

governor hok in New York could end

Sanctuary City policy with a stroke of a

pen if they cared they would and we are

hopeful that the voice of the American

people that which some chose to laugh at

last evening will be heard not only only

by this president but will continue to

embolden members of the House of

Republican conference to continue to

stand for them and and for National

Security Public Safety uh and closing

and securing our border with that I'd

like to introduce my colleague from Iowa

Zach

nun morning

friends this morning as a guy who has

served in the military on combat

operations that deterred China from

being deadly fitel to our Shores it has

commanded military forces that struck

out at cartel's inside Mexico we now

face a very different world three years

on nearly 8 million illegals entering

into our

country and in my district that had been

a blue District as a freshman that we

turned red we took the effort to say

this is not a Republican or a Democrat

issue this is a national security

issue and so at the State of the Union

let me be very

clear my guest will be the kid family

and their story enshrines so much of the

challenges that folks of all political

backgrounds are facing the threat facing

their

children their son Sebastian was a

typical Iowa kid he was on the wrestling

team he played golf he loved his friends

and he adored his parents and after

dealing with anxiety and depression he

found a friend who offered him a per

ccoet that per ccoet was laced with

deadly fitel and the next morning he did

not wake

up the kid family has addressed this

trategy by trying to save the lives of

other families Across America with their

heroic

work but as I invited the kid family to

join me at the State of the

Union that family asks the question that

so many Americans are asking if we had

just secured our border would my son be

alive

today and the reality is we now have

three years where choices were made in

this white house that threaten the lives

of families Across America whether that

be a nursing student in Georgia or Molly

Tibbits right in my hometown of Iowa we

have a situation where our country is

under

siege a particular salute to our law

enforcement in Iowa on i3 the main

Interstate coming up from Mexico to De

Mo where law enforcement seized 30,000

fitl pills let's be very clear pills

produced and made by China shipped to

cartels in Mexico that showed up on

American Shores this is simply a weapon

of mass destruction the number one cause

of death for folks my age down to my

high school daughter's age and so this

third Thursday as the president comes

forward we need more than rhetoric we

need a plan we need the type of

leadership that actions life-saving

measures to protect our country from an

international threat at our own Southern

border and so Mr President as you

address the nation think of the kid

family think of how we can save future

kids not just in Iowa but across the

country by doing the right thing

today with that I can think of no one

stronger to lead this effort than our

own gentleman from the heart of the

Heartland our whip Tom emmer thank

you thanks

Jack according to reports Joe Biden and

his allies are billing tomorrow's State

of the Union Address as their quote big

public reset

moment the problem with their strategy

is that the American people are going to

see right through whatever scripted

rhetoric Biden ends up reading off the

teleprompter tomorrow night from the

southern border to the economy to

foreign policy the facts are quite clear

Joe Biden has failed on every single

issue our state of the union has been

defined by unprecedented chaos thanks to

this this administration's failed

policies and it's the American people

who have been left to suffer as a result

Americans elected our house Republican

majority at the first chance they were

given to counteract Joe Biden's

disastrous agenda and we've worked hard

to deliver on the economy it was Joe

Biden's runaway spending that led to

double- digigit inflation historic

interest rates and Bank collapses

meanwhile House Republicans passed

legislation to lower cost for families

and put us on a path toward fiscal

responsibility on the southern border

it's Joe Biden who has refused to undo

his 64 executive actions that created

this crisis in the first place house for

Republicans on the other hand passed

historic border legislation that

finishes the wall reforms Parole

Authority reforms Asylum Authority ends

Catch and Release and would restore

remain in Mexico which our Customs and

Border Patrol says the last one would

staunch the flow of illegal aliens into

this country overnight by 70% and on

foreign policy it's Joe Biden's weakness

on the world stage that has empowered

our adversaries while little doing

little to reassure our allies in St

contrast House Republicans passed

legislation to reverse the White House's

policies and Bolding Iran refocus our

military on winning combat Wars not the

Democrats culture wars and

unapologetically support Israel needless

to say Americans need much more than a

quote reset moment out of this

Administration it's time for new

leadership and the people are going to

make their voices heard at The Ballot

Box this November until then we're going

to have to continue doing our part to

combat Joe Biden's failed policies and

hold this White House accountable and

with that I'm going to turn it over I

believe to our speaker Mike J got our

leader Steve scales

sorry thank you

whip tomorrow on the same day and in the

same chamber where Joe Biden will be

giving his State of the Union Address

the house will be taking up the lake and

Riley act we'll be debating and passing

a bill to confront yet another crisis

that Joe Biden himself created a crisis

that has had devastating impacts on

families like Lake and Riley's I want to

commend Mike Collins and Barry

Loudermilk for working with lake and

Riley's family who were devastated as

you can expect at the loss of their

daughter a completely unnecessary

tragedy that was created because Joe

Biden opened the southern border and

every community in America is seeing

crime murders

Devastation at the hands of people

coming here illegally and doing harm to

our citizens I've seen it in my own

backyard in Kenner Louisiana just a few

days ago where a 14-year-old girl was

raped by someone here illegally because

Joe Biden opened the southern border how

many more families will have to suffer

before Joe Biden finally admits his

mistake and corrects what he did we

passed a bill this house came together

and passed hr2 a bill that actually

would secure our border we worked with

our border patrol agents and others and

everybody knows what needs to happen

when Joe Biden went to the Border just a

few days ago for a photo op he had had

an opportunity to reverse his own damage

that he created through executive action

he could have ended Catch and Release he

could have worked to restore the remain

in Mexico policy that was so effective

under President trump it was a

negotiated agreement takes a little work

to call a foreign leader and make sure

you're doing everything you can to

protect your country but that's Joe

Biden's job and he is failing on every

front he could do it with a pen

he says Congress needs to act well then

he should ask the Senate to pass hr2 a

bill that would actually solve the

problem not make it work worse as we've

seen in some of the other bills floating

around the Senate but again Joe Biden

could do this on his own because he

created this problem with his pen is he

going to look tomorrow night into the

eyes of lake and Riley's family and

every other family in America and say

he's going to do everything in his power

to stop this

Invasion millions of people people on

the terrorist watch list that have come

into our country because he opened the

border and he can close the border but

he refuses to do so so when you look at

all the crisis Joe Biden's created on so

many fronts economic crisis energy

crisis foreign policy crisis where our

allies are on fire and our enemies are r

rough shod over other

nations when he talks about a reset is

it going to be more empty rhetoric or is

Joe Biden finally going to work with

Republicans to solve these problems we

stand ready just like we will be taking

up and passing the lake and Riley ACT

tomorrow this house has acted every time

there's been a crisis and worked on

solutions to fix those problems and the

leader at the Forefront of that effort

is our speaker Mike Johnson

thank you Steve I want to thank you all

for being here it's an important week in

Congress as has been noted and I want to

thank this cross-section of House of

Republican colleagues of ours who are

here uh to help us highlight a lot of

these important things and I want to

just summarize some of what's been said

here and then we'll we'll take questions

but tomorrow the American people as you

know we're going to hear from from

President Biden about the state of the

union and I've been asked many times as

many of us have if you had to describe

in one word what you believe the state

of the union is um you've heard the word

crisis you've heard catastrophe I think

maybe a summary is Decline and I say

that with great sadness we all do but

it's because of this President and his

administration that we are indisputably

in Decline our economic strength is in

Decline everyday goods are more

expensive people can barely uh afford

the cost of living now their groceries

and gasoline home ownership is

increasingly Out Of Reach and US

household debt is at an all-time high so

our economic strength is in Decline

American sovereignty is in Decline

you've heard us Lament The Border the

southern border is a total catastrophe

there's no other way to describe that

traffickers and cartels have taken

operational control of the Border fentel

poisoning is killing our children while

President Biden opened the border with

his Reckless executive actions and

remember we documented at least 64

actions that he and his agencies have

taken to open that border wide it was by

Design in the midst of all that we also

learned last week he never one time

spoke to the chief of the border patrol

it's unconscionable innocent Americans

from Lake and Riley in Georgia to the

14-year-old rap rape victim of an

illegal immigrant in our home state of

Louisiana as you just heard uh leader

scales talk about they've all been

victimized by Those whom the Biden

Administration has released into our

country he is releasing them into your

state every State's a border state the

safety of our cities is in Decline

carjackings are up attacks against law

enforcement are Horizon we have more

than 600,000 known criminal aliens

roaming the streets of America right now

free to reoffend and victimize Americans

the actual number is of course much

higher that's the official number that

we know about but we don't know how many

people have come across the border and

some of us believe it may be as many as

15 million illegal aliens who have come

across that border since Joe Biden

walked into the opal Office three years

ago America's presence on the world

stage is in Decline and you heard us

talk about that this morning as well

Iran Russia China our adversaries are

acting more provocatively than they have

in many many years and we have unrest

unlike we haven't seen since World War

II the president is turning his back

right now on our greatest Ally Israel

and after Biden's botch withdrawal from

Afghanistan our stature has been

diminished to a point that is difficult

to calculate during his address

President Biden is going to try to

suggest that the state of the union is

strong and we expect as was said that

he's going to say this is a time for

reset but of course the state of the

Union is not strong and everybody around

the country knows it and everybody in

this room knows it it doesn't matter

what political party you're in where you

lean on the political Spectrum you look

at objective facts and you know this

country is not in good shape because of

its leadership in the White House and

that's why at this point in his term

President Biden is the least popular

president in modern history America is

in Decline and nothing he says tomorrow

night is going to change that house of

Republicans on the other hand will

continue to fight to hold by and his

administration accountable that is our

constitutional Duty our responsibility

and we will fulfill it and we are

committed to saving this Republic and

that will happen in November when the

American people let their voices be

heard let's take a few questions yes

ma'am of challenges that your

predecessor did when it comes to pushing

forward with government spending stalled

foreign aid for Israel and ukra Ukraine

um just to name a few and obviously we

have another Government funding deadline

around the corner what would you say is

the state of the Republican conference

right now with this narrow majority I

look I would say that the state of the

Republican conference is encouraged and

strong we just left a meeting with with

we have a weekly Gathering of all the

Republicans and um listen we know that

for example on the appropriations of

Governor spending we were not going to

get everything that we want we want to

cut spending we want to limit the size

and scope of the federal government the

reality right now is we have divided

government we have a TW vote majority

one of the smallest in history in the

house the house of Republicans have the

majority but it's a CL majority and we

only control one half of one third of

the federal government we have to be

realistic about what we're able to

achieve but in spite of that we have an

Appropriations package that is going to

cut non-defense non-va discretionary

spending and it is going to increase

defense spending at this very important

and delicate Time Around the Globe those

are priorities that we have advanced and

we also Advanced as you've seen the

summary uh cuts to some of the agencies

that we believe are really overreaching

and and have been turned in some ways

against the American people um we we're

going to cut uh 3% from doj 7% from the

ATF 6% from the FBI and 10% from the EPA

and that's just a start we have a lot

more priorities and things that we need

to advance but the reality is as we all

recognize is that we have to grow the

House Majority take back the senate for

the Republican party and win the White

House and I'm here to tell the reason

we're optimistic is We Believe those

things are going to happen in November

we can't wait that day can't get here

soon enough yes sir right here thank you

Mr Speaker when your conference got the

majority you resolved to pass all 12

Appropriations Bill separately but after

four SE today you're going to pass a

thousand AG Mini Bus Bill and then

another one within the next few weeks

which some of your colleagues here in

the freedom confus have called to vote

against why were you not able to get

them done separately well the answer is

um he asked you know we committed to do

12 separate Appropriations bills and the

answer to this and the reason that it's

been so difficult to do it is because

Washington has no muscle memory on how

to do that some of you in the room know

that um the statutory law requires uh

Congress to work in a very methodical

manner to get government spending done

the 1974 budget Control Act spells out a

timetable that begins early in the year

and ends by late summer and that way

you're you're done with the spending

bills well in advance of September 30th

which is the end of the fiscal year

Congress hasn't done that in a long long

time in fact since I've been in Congress

for the last seven years and many years

before that we ruled by Omnibus what

would happen is the Congress would kick

the can down the road to the very last

minute at the end of the calendar year

and on the eve of of Christmas the

Senate would send to the house a massive

omn spending bill that spent you know

close to2 trillion dollar and has 4,000

pages that no one has time to read and

force a vote up or down on everything

all at once and we said that's not the

way to run government so it takes a a

long time to turn an aircraft carrier

and and we're doing that gradually we're

forcing reforms trying to force Congress

back into the mode the statutory mode

the lawful mode and the way in which

it's supposed to work with regard to

Government funding that means 12

separate Appropriations bills not all

lumped into one as a member of the

freedom caucus I want to remind

everybody here that that all occurred