Speaker Johnson on Shutdown: We’re Not Sending $24.6 Million for Climate Resilience in Honduras

Johnson: “And they would send half a billion dollars to liberal news outlets by refunding the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. It would also restore up to $5 billion of American taxpayer funds for wasteful spending for international projects. Here’s a couple of examples. This is in their legislation, their counterproposal on the CR to keep the lights open, this is what they want to do. They want to spend $24.6 million of your hard-earned dollars as a taxpayer for climate resilience in Honduras. They want to spend 13.4 million for civic engagement in Zimbabwe. They want to send 3.9 million for LGBTQI+ democracy grants in the Western Balkans. They want to spend 2.9 million of your dollars for desert locust risk reduction in the Horn of Africa, and 2 million for ‘organizing for feminist democratic principles in Africa.’ We are not doing that. These are unserious proposals from unserious people, and they are playing games while real Americans are being harmed adversely by the shutdown.”