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Mike Johnson: “They want to strip away the $50 billion that we put in the…”

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

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Speaker Johnson Joins Mornings with Maria on Fox Business

Published | Video Starts at 11:22

TSA agents, Border Patrol agents, vital federal services in the health care sector. They claim this is all about health care. Guess what they put in their counter proposal, Maria? They want to strip away the $50 billion that we put in the big, beautiful bill to prop up rural hospitals. Why? Because they're in red states. I guess that's how they see it. But they've made some absurd arguments. The WIC program that provides nutrition assistance for women, infants and children is going to be stopped. (11:22–11:30)

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Asserts that $50 billion was allocated to support rural hospitals in a bill.

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