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Mike Johnson: “We set $50 billion aside to take care of rural hospitals.”

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

Speaker Johnson Gives Press Conference Remarks on Day 2 of Government Shutdown

Published October 2, 2025 | Video Starts at 07:00

Speaker.gov Go there and check it out. They want to remove the rural hospital fund that Republicans fought so hard to put into the one big beautiful bill. We set $50 billion aside to take care of rural hospitals. Why would chairman want to get rid of that? I don't know. A lot of those rural hospitals are in red states. You have to decide for yourself what the motivations are here. (07:00–07:05)

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