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Mike Johnson: “Senate Democrats... pulled that provision out of the bill…”

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

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Speaker Johnson Joins All Things with Kim Strassel (Wall Street Journal)

Published | Video Starts at 01:37

It would save taxpayers about $30 billion in health care and it would bring, would have brought the premiums down by 12%. The Senate Democrats, the same people who are kicking and screaming now and shutting the government down, Senate Democrats... pulled that provision out of the bill and refused to do it. And what they're demanding right now is they want a full extension, permanent extension of the subsidies, which would not save 30 billion. It would cost taxpayers $358 billion. (01:37–23:28)

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Asserts that Senate Democrats removed cost-sharing reductions from the bill.

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