This morning, Speaker Johnson joined George Stephanopoulos on ABC's This Week and Shannon Bream on Fox News Sunday to discuss the federal response to Hurricane Helene, standing with Israel, and the need keep the 2024 election about policy, not politics.

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On the federal response to Hurricane Helene:

At the federal level, this has been a massive failure, and you could just ask the people there on the ground. I have been there. I was in Georgia, I was in Florida where Hurricane Helene made landfall there on the coast. And then we'll be going to the hardest hit parts of North Carolina on Wednesday of this week.

When you talk to the people who are directly affected, they will tell you that this has been an abject failure. FEMA has lost sight of its core mission I think in so many cases, and the administration has not shown that they were prepared for this eventuality and this terrible disaster. The thing about hurricanes, Shannon, is that we know that they're coming well in advance. You know, they had more than a week's notice of this, and yet we still have people who have not been served and even rescued in North Carolina. It is a heartbreaking, tragic, and infuriating situation to have the federal government fail as they have.

On FEMA funding to house illegal aliens:

The streams of funding are different, that is not an untrue statement of course. But the problem is what the American people see and what they're frustrated by, is that FEMA should be involved - they are the Federal Emergency Management Association - their mission is to help people in times like this of natural disaster, not to be engaged in using any pool of funding from any account for resettling illegal aliens who have come across the border. That's what the Biden Administration, Kamala Harris, and Secretary Mayorkas have been engaged in this program, and they have spent precious treasure of the American people and taxpayers to do just that.

When you see illegals in your local airport and you see them being transported around the country with planes, trains, and automobiles to every community everywhere, every state's a border stat now because of that. That's the NGOs, the non-governmental organizations mostly that are transporting those people around. And then they send the receipts to the federal government and Biden Harris and Mayorkas gleefully pay those receipts because they open the border intentionally. The American people are disgusted by this. They're fed up with it, and so are Republicans in Congress. And it'll stop after November 5th because we're going to have unified government with the Republicans in charge and we will bring sanity back to this situation.

On keeping the 2024 election focused on policy:

We have to talk about the greatest collection of challenges that this country is facing, probably since World War II, maybe the Civil War. Let's put all this political nonsense behind us and talk about how we get out of this mess. And I believe the way we do, and I believe a large number of the majority of the American people understand you have to put steady hands at the wheel. You've got to put President Donald J. Trump back in the White House because he will bring stability back.

He will get the economy going again. He will restore our stature on the world stage at a time where we're almost on the verge of World War III. You have got to get his leadership back in the White House. That's why the massive crowds are drawn to these rallies, and that's why I believe we're going to win in November.

On supporting Israel:

Everything that they have done, since day one, the Biden-Harris Administration, is project weakness on the world stage. And that has put us in the most dangerous situation that we have been in since World War II. Our allies are nervous. Our adversaries do not fear us. They don't respect us, and that is why China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, terrorists and tyrants around the world are coordinating against us. And that is why you're seeing the provocations of the war in Israel.

Russia moved on Ukraine, China doing all the things they're doing and threatening Taiwan. None of this happened on President Trump's watch because he was a steady hand, a strong hand at the wheel. We have got to reelect him so that we can restore the order in the world and project peace through strength again. That's what we have to get back to, and it cannot happen soon enough.

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