Speaker Mike Johnson confirmed in a new interview that he wants to defund the Planned Parenthood abortion business.
The Speaker of the House says he’s fully on board with taking away taxpayer dollars from America’s biggest abortion chain, but the House would need the votes to do it. With a very narrow Republican majority and no pro-life Democrats that’s easier said than done.
Still, Johnson said he would like to defund the abortion giant and is working to build the votes to do it. Likely, the only way that can be accompished is via a reconcilation bill — which both the House and Senate can pass on a majority vote margin.
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“I would like to. That’s for sure,” Johnson said in an interview on Fox News’s “The Story with Martha MacCallum,” when asked whether he plans to axe the two organizations.
“Yeah,” Johnson said, when MacCallum clarified whether he wants to cut spending to the organizations, adding, however, that, “We got to build consensus to have the votes to do that.”
“Now, some of this will be done by executive order out of the White House. He has a broad authority to do a lot of that,” Johnson said, referring to President-elect Trump. “But where Congress is involved, that’s where it takes the hard work of legislating and getting everybody on the same page.”
“So there’ll be lots of ideas that come out,” Johnson continued. “We don’t want to put too many of it out right now, okay, but this is part of that preparing the playbook to unleash and unroll in January.”
