The Truth Comes Out As Mike Johnson Admits GOP Is Going To Gut Medicaid

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson admitted that the Republican plan for Medicaid is throw people off of the program.

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There is a group of Senate Republicans who do not want to cut Medicaid. The number of Senate Republicans who oppose Medicaid cuts is between four and seven. There are enough of them to require major changes to the Republican plan to cut taxes for the wealthy and corporations and pay for it by cutting Medicaid.

This fact has slowed down Speaker of the House Mike Johnson who laid out the House Republican plan to gut Medicaid.

Speaker Johnson said on Fox’s Sunday Morning Futures:

First, at the same time, we have to root out fraud, waste and abuse. We have to eliminate people on, for example, on Medicaid who are not actually eligible to be there. Able-bodied workers, for example, young men who are, who should never be on the program at all. It when they, when you have people on the program that are draining the resources, it takes it away from the people that are actually…