During a GOP presser Tuesday, Speaker Johnson erroneously claimed Medicaid cuts are very popular in their Big Ugly Bill, despite polling clearly saying the opposite.
Democrats are demanding Republicans repeal the cuts to Medicaid as one condition if they want their votes for continuing resolution in the upcoming fight to fund the government.
Speaker Johnson pretends the general public loves the idea of cutting Medicaid to give tax breaks to the wealthy.
They do not.
JOHNSON: In exchange for their vote to fund the government, some Democrats said they wanted Republicans to repeal our very popular and very effective reforms to the Medicaid program, where we cut fraud, waste, and abuse, and we ensured that illegal aliens don’t receive taxpayer benefits, and we put able-bodied men back to work.
They want us to wind that back.
Zero chance that we will do that, because it’s the right thing to do.
MAGA republicans comprise many who need Medicaid coverage, but they get what they voted for, sadly enough.
