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Scott Fitzgerald: “Speaker Johnson had the ability to push through last night…”

Featuring: Scott Fitzgerald, Republican | U.S. House of Representatives, Wisconsin, District 5

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Interview with Wisconsin Congressman Scott Fitzgerald on Trump's Budget Bill and California Wildfires

Published | Video Starts at 00:56

… motion the largest Medicaid cut in American history, but the tax cuts will only benefit the ultra wealthy. What's your reaction to all this? Yeah, I mean, I'm pleased that Speaker Johnson had the ability to push through last night, basically the keys that unlock really this entire process that we've been talking about since President Trump won re election back in November. And that was reconciliation. It's something that the speaker did a good job, I think, of trying to explain to members that this was simply a framework that, that both the Senate and the House could work off of. (00:56–01:13)

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