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Armed with talking points and instructions from their leaders, Democratic and Republican U.S. House members spread out across the nation last week hawking their versions of whether the ...
The nation's first mandated work requirement for Medicaid recepients, approved by the Republican-led Congress and signed by ...
Tribune House Speaker Mike Johnson returned to his home district this week to highlight a newly signed federal law he says will reshape the economy and provide major tax relief for working families.
Johnson has shepherded a series of wins for the White House—and turned the House into an instrument of Trump's agenda ...
In his appearance on "Meet the Press" with Kristen Welker earlier today, Speaker Mike Johnson rejected Senator Josh Hawley's claims that Trump's "one big beautiful bill" will cut Medicaid, adamantly ...
This summer, President Donald Trump has begun to chisel back Medicaid and food stamps. On a July day in 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed legislation into law that launched Medicaid, creating ...
Johnson spent Wednesday giving speeches from Ruston to Bossier City, saying Democrats were misleading voters about the One Big Beautiful Bill. “We did not cut Medicaid,” Johnson said.
House Republicans are pushing for a second megabill. The Senate GOP’s not so sure.
and then banged down the gavel that House Speaker Mike Johnson gifted him that was used during the bill’s final passage Thursday. The bill extends Trump’s 2017 multi-trillion dollar tax cuts and cuts ...
Johnson concluded his visit in Monroe, describing the legislation as a budget reconciliation bill and the GOP’s primary legislative tool.
Supporters of the GOP’s plan, including Speaker Mike Johnson, said the federal government needs to slash funding and that Medicaid needs to be more efficient.