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NY Governor Kathy Hochul Discusses Major Announcement

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Mike Johnson's Press Conference Meltdown: Mini Mamdanis and Communism

NY Governor Kathy Hochul Discusses Major Announcement · Jul 15, 2026 Government

Speaker Mike Johnson held a press conference where he identified 'mini Mamdanis' as the biggest threat to America, called for doubling the defense budget to fight communism on US shores, and admitted he hadn't heard about an ICE killing in Maine because he was 'too busy.' Ben Meiselas dissects the spectacle of a flailing party governing by culture-war slogans.

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