The president of the chamber, Mike Johnson, said that he was “not at all worried” against the order of President Donald Trump to send 2,000 troops of the National Guard to Los Angeles to repress the immigration demonstrations which led to clashes between the demonstrators and the police.
“I think the president did exactly what he should do,” Johnson told ABC News “this week”, Co-Album Jonathan Karl on Sunday. “These are federal laws and we must maintain the rule of law. And this is not what is happening. [California Gov.] Gavin Newsom has shown an inability or reluctance to do what is necessary there. “”
“It is a real leadership, and he has the authority and the responsibility to do so,” said the speaker, defending Trump’s decision.
Californian officials said the deployment of the National Guard was not necessary. Newsom said this decision was “deliberately inflammatory and will only degenerate tensions”.
The president of the Mike Johnson room is expressed with ABC News when he appeared this week on June 8, 2025.
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“The federal government dries chaos so that it can have an excuse to intensify. This is not that any civilized country behaves,” posted the governor on X.
Defense secretary Pete Hegseth said on Saturday that the Active Service of Camp Pendleton will be mobilized “if violence continues”.
Asked about Hegseth’s comments, Johnson said: “One of our fundamental principles is to maintain peace by force. We also do so on foreign affairs and domestic affairs. I don’t think it’s heavy.”
“You do not think that the sending of navies in the streets of an American city is heavy?” Karl in a hurry.
“We must be ready to do what is necessary, and I think that the opinion could happen could have the deterrent,,” said the speaker.
The president’s decision to deploy the National Guard comes after his dramatic audience falls with Elon Musk, whose role within the government ended just over a week ago.
Johnson said that he still hadn’t talked to Musk since he went to his social media platform to explode Trump’s legislative priority that the Republicans are trying to go through Congress, but they exchanged text messages.
“The president used the word” disappointing “. I think it’s true.
“Look, Elon’s number one responsibility is to save his business. The president and I are responsible for saving this country, and this is what this bill is doing. And we are really excited and proud of this product,” he added.
When asked what his text messages with Musk said, Johnson said that Musk had expressed his concerns about spending.
“And I said: ‘Elon, the categories of expenditure of this bill are in two limited areas-the border, which we have promised to the American people we would make and their defense,” he said. “Everything else in the bill concerns historical economies and tax reductions.”
In response to Musk’s suggestion so that people call their Congress members to “kill the bill,” said Johnson, “we have almost no calls to offices”.
“Listen, I did not go out to develop legislation to please the richest man in the world. What we are trying to do is helping the Americans who work hard who are trying to provide their families to reach both ends.”
Johnson has circumvented the question of whether Trump should go ahead with the reduction of Musk’s government contracts.
“I’m not going to get into the strategy of what’s going on with all of this,” he said.
The speaker said that he hoped that the quarrel “would solve” and said: “I will continue to try to be a peacemaker in all of this.”
Johnson added that he thought that “it would be a big mistake” for Musk to go after the Republicans who support the Big Beautiful Bill Act.
“I think that Elon knows that, at the end of the day, the reason why he got involved to help President Trump to win and to help the Republicans win the majority in the House and the Senate is because he understands that our policies are better for human fulfillment, they are better for the American economy, they are better for everything he is involved,” said Johnson. “I think that when the emotion is settling in, I think it will recognize that we have no choice. We must hold the majority of the house in the mid-term elections of 2026, and we will because we have to allow President Trump full, not just two.”
