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Mike Johnson: “Some Democrats said they wanted Republicans to repeal our…”

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

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Speaker Johnson Delivers Remarks at House Leadership Press Conference

Published | Video Starts at 08:28

I just think that is a fool's gambit. It's anybody who's advocating for that to make it a partisan exercise is making a big mistake. In exchange for their vote to fund the government, Some Democrats said they wanted Republicans to repeal our very popular and very effective reforms to the Medicaid program. where we cut fraud, waste and abuse and we ensured that illegal aliens don't receive taxpayer benefits and we put able bodied men back to work. They want us to wind that back. (08:28–08:36)

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