House Speaker Mike Johnson is calling out Democrats for slipping what he calls a “poison pill” into government funding legislation — a move he says threatens to keep healthcare costs sky-high while funneling money to big insurance companies.
During a Monday interview on Newsmax, Johnson said that once the current government shutdown standoff ends, House Republicans plan to focus on tackling America’s exploding healthcare costs.
The House already passed a short-term funding bill in September that would keep the government running through November 21. But that plan immediately ran into resistance in the Democrat-controlled Senate over one key issue: pandemic-era subsidies tied to the Affordable Care Act. Those subsidies, which Democrats expanded during COVID, are set to expire at the end of the year — and liberals want them made permanent.
Johnson Slams Democrats for Gutting GOP Cost-Cutting Reforms
Speaking with Greta Van Susteren on “The Record,” Johnson declined to say when the House might take up the Senate’s new funding proposal, which would extend government spending through January 30. But he didn’t mince words about what happened to Republican-backed healthcare reforms buried inside their original “One Big Beautiful Bill Act.”
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