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Mike Johnson Discusses Republican Legislation, Medicaid Cuts, and Iran Strikes

Published June 26, 2025 | Video Starts at 27:18

The punishment this guy's trying to inflict is you have to abide by my now illegal order. That's your punishment. You cannot deport anybody. This is really dangerously unconstitutional. What are your thoughts? Of course. I mean, look, Murphy and Boasberg are like the poster children for activist judges. This is exactly what the framers of the Constitution wanted to prevent. This is a violation of separation of powers. (27:18–27:23)

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“We dropped the largest bombs ever known to man short of a nuclear bomb on this spot.”
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“They had enough 60% enriched uranium to develop nine nuclear weapons within weeks, or at least one within two to three days.”
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“There's been over 125 military operations by presidents of both parties in that intervening period.”
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“We had a record number of Hispanic and Latino voters, black and African American voters, Jewish voters, union workers [in 2024].”
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“67% of the national injunctions issued against a particular president have been issued against [Donald Trump].”
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“Of those 67 injunctions, 90% of them were issued by the same small handful of activists.”
Mike Johnson Discusses Republican Legislation, Medicaid Cuts, and Iran Strikes | Uploaded June 26, 2025 | 28:23-28:30
“Impeachment is a rare result. It's only happened 15 times in the history of the country.”
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“This bill, the one big, beautiful bill, is all of the Trump agenda, all the America first agenda, wrapped into one big piece of legislation.”
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“We're using the budget reconciliation process, reconciling the budget in order to squeeze all these big initiatives in.”
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“It's historic spending cuts, historically historic tax cuts, border security, the largest investment in a generation.”
Mike Johnson Discusses Republican Legislation, Medicaid Cuts, and Iran Strikes | Uploaded June 26, 2025 | 01:52-01:58
“Medicaid is intended to be a temporary safety net for people who desperately need it.”
Mike Johnson Discusses Republican Legislation, Medicaid Cuts, and Iran Strikes | Uploaded June 26, 2025 | 02:31-02:36
“It's been expanded under the last two Democrat presidents and to cover everybody.”
Mike Johnson Discusses Republican Legislation, Medicaid Cuts, and Iran Strikes | Uploaded June 26, 2025 | 02:43-02:49
“We're doing is restoring work requirements to Medicaid.”
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“All we've done in the bill is add 20 hours a week, okay? A requirement to work for 20 hours a week or be in a job training program looking…”
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“The reason it's unpopular, people don't dislike the bill. They dislike what they've been told about the bill by Democrats and mainstream…”
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“We brought about the greatest economy in the history of the world with our tax cuts and regulatory reform.”
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“My prediction is President Trump will sign this thing on July 4th of this year.”
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“In that first Trump administration, we had the greatest economy in the history of the world.”
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“Job participation rate was an all time high, poverty at an all time low, wages rising for every demographic in America.”
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“We're going to protect those rural hospitals.”
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“We wanted to ensure no cuts to Medicaid.”
Mike Johnson Discusses Republican Legislation, Medicaid Cuts, and Iran Strikes | Uploaded June 26, 2025 | 08:55-08:59
“There will be a supplemental piece of the legislation in the reconciliation bill itself that provides an additional account to prop up the…”
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“There will be no net negative effect [on rural hospitals].”
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“We have small margins, historically small margins in the House and the Senate.”
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“We began this process in March of last year knowing and believing that we would have unified government.”
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“There's an appetite amongst all Republicans generally to get rid of all of [the Big Green, New Deal, subsidies and credits].”
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“He [President Trump] wants to wipe it out entirely.”
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“This would be the most consequential legislation that Congress has passed in generations.”
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“This bill is written for and geared to lower and middle income families.”
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“People who make more than a million dollars are going to benefit the least from the tax policies here.”
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“Iran suddenly coming to the table and wanting to negotiate a peace deal.”
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“The president act clearly within his constitutional authority.”
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“I'm not sure the War Powers act is even constitutional.”
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“Iran would have a nuclear warhead by the time Congress acted.”
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“This guy's now the nominee of the Democratic Party. He is an anti open, anti Semite socialist.”
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“This is a violation of separation of powers.”
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“We have passed legislation in the House called the no Road Rulings act.”
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“Congress will take action. We have the ability to limit jurisdiction of courts.”
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