Johnson Lies: “We Are Not Cutting Medicaid” [VIDEO]

The Hill reports:

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) defended the House-passed “big, beautiful bill” that funds President Trump’s agenda during a Sunday appearance on CNN, arguing that it won’t threaten Medicaid coverage for people who need it, despite independent analysis that suggests it will end health insurance for millions. “We are not cutting Medicaid in this package,” Johnson told CNN’s Jake Tapper. “There’s a lot of misinformation out there about this.”

The independent Congressional Budget Office has estimated that nearly 8 million Americans will lose health care coverage in the coming decade through changes made in the massive domestic policy measure House Republicans narrowly passed.

Johnson said that the only people who will lose coverage are those who are defrauding the program. “You’re talking about 4.8 million able bodied workers, young men, for example, who are on Medicaid and not working — they are choosing not to work when they can,” Johnson said. “That is called fraud; they are cheating the system.”

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