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Mike Johnson: “Every one of [the five different independent scores of this…”

Featuring: Mike Johnson, Republican | Speaker of the United States House of Representatives | National

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Mike Johnson Discusses House Reconciliation Bill and Medicaid Cuts

Published | Video Starts at 01:44

Congress has kicked the can down the road for decades and we're out of road. And so we understand that it's our responsibility to fix this. So there are five different independent scores of this legislation. Every one of [the five different independent scores of this legislation] says that it will increase the deficit somewhere between 3.3 and $4 trillion over the next 10 years. Now I get you take issue with the Congressional Budget Office and that they don't have dynamic scoring all this, but this is the emergency emerging consensus among everyone analyzing. (01:44–01:53)

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Asserts that independent scores predict the legislation will increase the deficit by $3.3 to $4 trillion over 10 years.

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