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Speaker Defends Gulf Troop Surge, Denies Boots on Ground

House Speaker Mike Johnson defended sending 2,000 US troops to the Persian Gulf as a message for Iran to "get their act together." He refused to label the deployment as "boots on the ground," despite ongoing military actions in the region.