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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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WELKER: Do you have any actual evidence that the people who will lose Medicaid coverage are engaging in fraud?
MIKE JOHNSON: Well, there is a tremendous amount of fraud in Medicaid
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) June 1, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Mike Johnson: “Those 4.8 million people will not lose their Medicaid unless they choose to do so.”
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) June 1, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Mike Johnson blatantly lies on Meet the Press: “You can underscore what I’m about to tell you — there are no Medicaid cuts in the big beautiful bill … what we’re doing is an important, and frankly heroic thing.”
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) June 1, 2025 at 10:21 AM