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WASHINGTON — Last night, Speaker Johnson joined Sean Hannity on Fox News to discuss Democrats’ demand to defund Customs and Border Protection – and reopen American borders – in exchange for their votes to pay TSA agents and fund FEMA for the American people. Speaker Johnson also addressed the Democrats once again being on the wrong side of a 90/10 issue with their opposition to the SAVE America Act.

“House Democrats and Senate Democrats have joined together – the same group that gave us wide open borders and defunding the police is at it again,” Speaker Johnson said. “They are refusing to reopen TSA and FEMA for the American people unless they can also reopen the borders for illegal aliens. That's exactly what's at stake right now.”

Watch the full interview here.

On Democrat attempts to reopen America’s borders:

Listen, this is what's really important. People don't understand, the Department of Homeland Security is the third largest department of the federal government. There are 10 agencies in DHS, and they happen to be the agencies that are there, just as the name suggests, to keep Americans safe. You have 260,000 employees [at DHS]. One of those agencies, just one of them, is Customs and Border Protection. It's the largest federal law enforcement agency in America, and they are trying to defund it. They want to defund the police, and this time, it's the people that keep the borders closed and keep our community safe and deport these dangerous people out of our country.

On Democrats voting against legislation to deport illegal aliens who commit fraud:

This is a very important thing. We've got to crack down on fraud, waste and abuse in government, the abuse of our federal welfare programs. Obviously, it's a big problem in the country. And if you have illegal aliens who have already violated the law to come here and they're engaging in these other crimes, you know, bilking the federal taxpayers, they ought to be immediately deported. The Democrats do not want to deport criminal illegal aliens, but 83% of Americans do. They understand this is critical to maintain the rule of law and law and order.

On the SAVE America Act: 

We certainly encourage all Senators to do the right thing and do what the American people demand and deserve. The Republican Senators are working hard to pass the SAVE America Act. Of course, we passed it out of the House three times. The SAVE Act twice, and now the SAVE America Act. Sean, very simply, you're talking about requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote and a photo ID when you show up to do that. Those are 90/10 issues in the country, and 70% of Democrats say that is a commonsense regulation and restriction on voting. And they won't do it. The Democrats in the Senate will not do it.