Speaker Johnson: ‘We’re Working on the Next Project Which Is to Get the Strait of Hormuz Open’

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JOHNSON: “The president has declared Operation Epic Fury to have concluded, and now we're working on the next project, which is getting the Strait of Hormuz open. We don't expect that to be a warfare activity, so to speak. So, we've got to allow the administration time to negotiate these things. The president has been doing that in earnest. The difficulty, as they've articulated in the White House, is that you've got to make sure you're negotiating with the right parties, and it's taken Iran some time, because the top layers of leadership were taken out, to make sure the right people with the right authority are at the table. So, that's been the complicating factor. I do know that our allies and our neighbors and friends around the world, and most recently in the discussion the president had with Xi in China, just in the last couple of days, everyone has an interest in the strait being reopened for commerce. And so, you're going to have, I think, international partners to assist with that. We think it comes to a conclusion soon.”