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Mike Johnson: “It'll save $185 billion is the estimate of the CBO just for…”

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

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Speaker Johnson condemns Democrat shutdown after Trump's Knesset speech

Published | Video Starts at 16:42

That's going to be the effect of the one big beautiful bill, the working families tax cut. And it's going to reduce the cost. It'll save $185 billion is the estimate of the CBO just for those initial reforms. So it's a long answer to a simple question. We have to fix health care in America and we have ideas to do it, but we have to have government open and operating to do that. (16:42–16:49)

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Asserts that the Congressional Budget Office estimates $185 billion in savings from initial reforms.

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