GLOVES OFF: Marjorie Taylor Greene ATTACKS Mike Johnson

GLOVES OFF: Marjorie Taylor Greene ATTACKS Mike Johnson

It’s been nearly a month that Mike Johnson’s helped keep the government shutdown in an effort to prevent representative elect from being sworn in and serve as the deciding vote to force a vote on the release of the Epstein files. But the practical effect of this shutdown is that come January 1st, 2026, 24 million Americans will watch their healthcare premiums double, triple, or quadruple. Now, if you listen to Mike Johnson, they’ve totally definitely got a plan. If the government reopened tonight, would Republicans have a plan to address the Obamacare subsidies? Yes. Yes. Proposals to uh Yeah, we could have that ready immediately. Yes. Yeah. Because because here’s the thing, we work in a deliberative public body and we have hundreds of members. It’s a very complicated, very complex issue that requires a long time to build consensus around. We have ideas on the table and the whole process of the legislative body is to build consensus around it. That’s why we have to do that and that’s what we’ve been planning to do all along. It was never possible or appropriate to have this decided on a CR, a simple stop gap funding measure for 7 weeks, a clean continuing resolution. The Democrats know that and they are not being truthful about it. And take Whip Clark’s words for it. They shut the government down and they’re using hardworking American families who she says will suffer and they know it as leverage for for this political game. If it takes a long time to build consensus, why not bring the House back to talk about the plan that you say you have to fix healthcare? Because the House has done its job. The House passed the CR. We did it over a month ago. And we need Chuck Schumer and the Democrats to do what they have always done. They did it 13 times during the Biden administration. 13 times. And Chuck Schumer did it most recently seven or eight months ago in March of this year and he gave an impassion speech on the floor and said that’s the only possible outcome. You could never possibly shut the government down because it would be dangerous and would hurt real Americans. Well, he was right then. He is not being honest now. That was last week and yet here we are this week and surprise surprise there’s still no plan and Marjorie Taylor Green is done pretending that this is all fine. Following a House GOP conference call today, she came out and said, quote, “I demanded to know from Speaker Johnson what the Republican plan for healthcare is to build the off-ramp off Obamacare and the ACA tax credits to make health insurance affordable for Americans.” Johnson said he’s got ideas in pages of policy ideas and committees of jurisdictions are working on it, but he refused to give one policy proposal to our GOP conference on our own conference call. Apparently, I have to go into a skiff to find out the Republican healthcare plan. The reality is, and I’m sure that this is what Margie Green is learning, there is no Republican healthcare plan. If there was, we would have seen it sometime between now and the last 15 years. The actual plan is that Republicans just don’t want the ACA. Why? Two reasons. First, they hate Barack Obama and they view the ACA not as a program that helps Americans, but rather a reflection of Obama’s success. and their disdain for Obama is stronger than their desire to help Americans. So if that means tens of millions of Americans have to suffer while Republicans hobble the ACA so that they can get their vengeance off of the president that they don’t like, that’s a price they’re willing to have us pay while they score their petty political win. But second, they simply do not care about healthcare for Americans. Remember, this is a political party that just cut healthcare to the tune of a trillion dollars. They stripped Medicaid from 17 million Americans and now they’re ensuring that ACA premiums double, triple, or quadruple in 2026. Again, they do not care about healthcare. If they did, they wouldn’t be behaving exactly the way they’re behaving right now. Not that she deserves any credit here, but at least Margie Taylor Green has the balls to admit that her plan is to eliminate the ACA entirely. The rest of the GOP, including Mike Johnson, aim to simply treat their base like they’re morons and play games about healthcare because they don’t think they’re worth even a basic explanation, even a modicum of truth about what they’re trying to do. You see, what Mike Johnson wants to do is undermine the ACA so much that the people who rely on it begin to hate it, which will in turn reduce support for that law and ultimately create some political space for Republicans to repeal it. Think about how cruel that is. They are going to make a program that millions upon millions of Americans rely on less effective. Meaning that they’re going to hurt people expressly because they need to create space to repeal a law that they don’t like because a they hate the guy who passed it and b they just don’t care about giving people healthcare. This is all a game to them. And the losers here are the millions of Americans who will not have access to affordable health care and who may die as the result. Of course, the the reality is that if Republicans ever did dane to allow us to see their totally real health care plan, it would make a lot of middlemen quite rich. That is their governing philosophy. Privatize everything and make sure someone is getting filthy rich on the backs of workingclass Americans. There should be no services, no assistance, no healthcare, no mail service, no VA, no education unless someone makes bank off of all of it. One in eight Americans rely on food stamps. Do you think Republicans are batting an eye about cutting that funding, which leaves 42 million Americans hungry? Not for a second. Which is the same reason that they’re not batting an eye about gutting Medicaid for 17 million Americans or ACA subsidies for 24 million Americans. They do not care. Or if they do care, well, their votes tell an entirely different story. So, look, I’m going to make this all very, very simple. If the Democrats give the Republicans the few votes they need to open the government without a deal in place, there is nothing other than Republicans word to ensure that they will extend the ACA subsidies that prevent healthcare costs for 24 million Americans from doubling, tripling, or quadrupling. The Democrats have a little bit of leverage here. So, they’re using it to ensure that healthcare doesn’t become unaffordable. Pretty reasonable. Republicans like Mike Johnson are amplifying some legitimately sad stories about government workers going without pay right now. And those stories are bad. But what’s worse is that the government reopens with no ACA extension and now those same people are paying four times the price for health care. So if Mike Johnson truly cares about those people whose stories he’s perfectly content to exploit right now, then he should make sure that they don’t get screwed over by his own party. Remember those poor innocent little Republicans have agency here. They could sit down with Democrats and extend ACA subsidies so that Americans can continue to afford their health coverage. and they could do it right the now. If Mike Johnson is as concerned as he pretends he is on TV and pretends he is during conference calls, then he should sit down with Democrats today and figure out how to extend those subsidies to get the government back open. In fact, if Democrats capitulated and reopened the government right now without a deal in place, then what leverage do they have? Republicans word that they’re just going to totally definitely negotiate a deal. The people who’ve spent the last decade trying to destroy the ACA are going to be the same ones to voluntarily fix it when Democrats have zero leverage. Come on now. And that’s a point that I made on air on Newsmation as well. Democrats are using what little leverage they have because they need Democratic votes to get this thing done to restore ACA subsidies. That will mean that Americans don’t don’t endure 75 to 100% increases in their healthcare. I hear you. I guess the counterargument to that, Brian, would be, and this is something that’s been echoed. Are you going to support one initiative or one group at the expense of the other? You talk about healthcare, this is something Mike Johnson says, well, what about FEMA? What about the CDC that’s affected? Why not agree to a continuing resolution for immediate funding? You negotiate Obamacare, the tax credits at a later date. If if you think about what the cost is going to be at this point, why not more Democrats sign on to the two that already went across the aisle? because they know Republicans won’t negotiate those things. This is the same Republican party that just cut a trillion dollars in health care from Americans. Do we really think that these are the people that are going to come down and sit at the negotiating table to make sure that we can restore the these ACA subsidies? This is the same Republican party that just cut Medicaid from 17 million Americans and food assistance to the tune of $350 billion. Those are the people that we’re going to trust when they say, “Don’t worry, just sign on to this continuing resolution and we’ll definitely get on to the negotiating table to make sure that Americans get healthare.” These people have shown you who they are. At this point, we have to believe them. The reality here is actually quite simple. Mike Johnson does not want to protect the ACA, which 24 million Americans rely on, including plenty of Americans in red states, including plenty of Americans in districts like the one Margie Taylor Green represents. He and his party hate this law that enabled millions of Americans to get coverage. They do not believe in healthcare as a right. This is their way of destroying it from within, allowing it to become so ineffective and so expensive that it becomes less popular. and therefore easier to destroy with their own plan that they’ve had 15 years to uncover. And yet here we are still waiting for some semblance of what that plan actually entails. But he knows that if he relents here and extends those subsidies, he’ll undermine that plan. And so instead, he’ll pretend that he and his party are the victims at the hands of the big bad Democrats and that all they need to do is hand over what little leverage they have and then just totally trust the GOP when they say that they’ll work with the Democrats on healthcare. What could possibly go wrong when trusting the people who just stripped a trillion dollars from healthcare in the last budget bill to do right on the American people when it comes to their coverage? So, look, if Mike Johnson and Republicans want to gut healthcare, that’s their prerogative. But again, at least have the balls to admit it. At least have the balls to own your own position. Do not pretend like you’re helping here. The Democrats are asking for one thing, something that, by the way, helps Republicans. According to Kaiser Family Foundation polling, Americans want Congress to extend the expiring ACA subsidies by a staggering 78% to 22% margin. Nearly 8 in 10 Americans side with the Democrats here. Mike Johnson can fix this in one day if he wants to do, but he doesn’t. And that’s the point. So, if you’re a Republican out there and you don’t want your health care cost to double or triple or quadruple, call Mike Johnson or your Republican member of Congress or your Republican senator and tell them to extend the ACA subsidies and to stop pretending that they will work with the Democrats only after the Democrats have surrendered their leverage. We can see the games they’re playing. And if it wasn’t literally life or death for millions of people, it might ring as just a little bit cuter than it is right now. Before you go, if you enjoyed this content and you want to see more and support independent media, please subscribe to this channel. The subscribe button will be right here on the screen. 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BREAKING #news – Marjorie Taylor Greene goes after Mike Johnson over healthcare

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