‘Obviously,’ They Have Not Read Their Bill: Speaker Johnson on Dems Claiming Their Bill Does Not Revive Health Care for Illegals

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ROBERTS: “Obviously they want to restore some of the cuts enacted in the big beautiful bill when it comes to Medicaid funding. Democrats insist our bills did not provide federal dollars for healthcare for illegal immigrants and you say what?”

Johnson: “I say they have not read their bill. Pull it up on the website. Page 57 of Chuck Schumer’s bill look at section 2141, it says right there in plain language. They want to repeal the health provisions of the one big beautiful bill.”

ROBERTS: “I do part ways with you here on this idea of plain language. I read that whole section. It might as well be written in mandarin.”

Johnson: “That’s probably why the Democrats don’t understand what they filed. If you interpret that and get through all the subsections what you realize is they are trying to take out in its entirety the reforms that we put into the big, beautiful bill pertaining to health. And, why is that so important? Because, what we did was we strengthened the Medicaid program by making sure that ineligible recipients are not on the roles, the cbo, the congressional budget office on August 25th published a letter and they said this is going to do exactly what Republicans said. They estimate that 2.3 million illegal recipients for Medicaid will be pushed off the roles because of our reforms. And it is going to save $185 billion taxpayer funds. So, they want to return all those ineligible people back to the roles, and many of them are illegal aliens. That is a fact. And anybody who looks at it objectively has to say it’s true.”