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WASHINGTON — This morning, ahead of the House vote on a six month spending measure to avoid a government shutdown and protect American elections from noncitizen voting, Speaker Johnson joined Fox News’ Fox and Friends and CNBC’s Squawk Box to implore Congressional Democrats to protect American elections, highlight the 2025 GOP economic agenda, and detail plans to expand the investigative scope of the Task Force to Investigate the Assassination of President Trump.

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On Congress’s responsibility to protect elections and fund the government:

Listen, Congress has an immediate obligation to do two very important things. We have to keep the government funded, and we need to make sure that our elections are secure. And we have a vehicle today to do both things, because we owe that to the American people and because they demand it. We're moving legislation today to have a continuing resolution to keep the government going for six months and to make sure that illegals cannot vote, noncitizens cannot vote in the upcoming election. It's a number one issue around the country.

On the GOP plan for economic growth:

We implement the principles and the policies that we've always espoused, and that is less regulation and lower taxes. It's a pretty simple formula, and it has a great result. So, we want to expand upon the Trump era tax cuts, and we want to do massive regulatory reform. One of the problems we have right now across the free market is that the federal government has been, these agencies have been weaponized against the industries they're supposed to be assisting and regulating in a meaningful way. Under the Biden-Harris Administration, they have almost smothered the free market. I mean, it's like the boot of government is on the neck of job creators and entrepreneurs and risk takers who are just trying to do their jobs, and they've made it almost impossible. So, we're going to reverse that.

If you get Republican leadership in the White House, the Senate and the House, unified government, we will put this thing on turbo. You will see massive regulatory reform. We have a great opportunity. The Supreme Court has overturned a Chevron doctrine. We have all the talk about political tailwinds in a moment of opportunity. That's what we'll see in the first quarter of next year, and you're going to see a lot of change that I think will really incentivize more opportunity, more investment, more American manufacturing, detangle from China, get the border under control and stop the illegal immigration and stop the maddening government spending that's been out of control for the last four years.

On expanding the Task Force Investigating the Assassination of Donald Trump:

I had that conversation with the White House yesterday. I called and demanded that President Trump receive the same level of protection that the sitting president does, because he is under such great threat. I mean, clearly, he's the most threatened figure in American public life, and the Secret Service has an obligation to protect him, so they need to make every available asset assigned to him right now.

President Trump and I have talked about this, and now I've talked about it with the White House. Now, they say they're going to be cooperative, but they also say there's a manpower issue. So, Congress is looking at every aspect of this. If we need to add additional funding, we will, but it's difficult to go hire 2,500 new secret service agents in the next 48 days, right? So, they're going to have to rely upon, in some cases, to fill the gaps local and state law enforcement. And so, we're looking at every aspect. This job must be done. President Trump must be protected.