Johnson: If You Lose Medicaid, It’s Your Fault [VIDEO]

The Hill reports:

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) doubled down on his claim that there won’t be Medicaid cuts in Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” despite projections that millions of low-income individuals would lose health insurance as a result of the bill. Johnson, during an appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” pushed back on independent projections that the bill would lead to 4.8 million who would lose coverage because of work requirements, saying they won’t lose it “unless they choose to do so.”

“Those 4.8 million people will not lose their Medicaid unless they choose to do so,” he told host Kristen Welker. He added that the people who are complaining about losing their coverage are doing so “because they can’t fulfill the paperwork,” noting that the policy follows “common sense.” Johnson said that the bill “strengthens” Medicaid and said what they are doing is “an important and frankly heroic thing.”

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