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Mike Johnson: “The subsidy only applies to 7% of Americans... it would cost…”

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

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Speaker Johnson Joins The Moon Griffon Radio Show

Published | Video Starts at 03:58

So that, that they've made so much hay here on Capitol Hill about this, this Covid era subsidy, all it was was a subsidy for big insurance companies and they just want to shovel more money at a failed system. It impacts The subsidy only applies to 7% of Americans... it would cost taxpayers $350 billion. So terrible policy. It was wrong when it was conceived, it's wrong now. And what we did in response is instead of helping 7% of Americans. (03:58–04:30)

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Asserts that a specific subsidy affects 7% of Americans and would cost $350 billion.

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