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Mike Johnson: “We plus up the accounts for veterans.”

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

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Mike Johnson Confident ahead of House Vote on Spending Bill

Published | Video Starts at 05:50

99 pages, this clean CR contains no poison pill riders, no, no policy riders there at all. No cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, or Social Security. 0. No cuts to veterans benefits. 0. In fact, as was noted, We plus up the accounts for veterans. And respectfully, I'm just going to say this to every reporter in the room, that if you're allowing Democrats to make these intentionally false, scurrilous claims without pushback, then you're aiding and abetting the spreading this misinformation. (05:50–05:53)

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Asserts that funding for veterans' accounts was increased.

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