MAGA Mike Refuses To Commit To Vote On ACA Subsidies
Speaker Mike Johnson sat down with CNN's Jake Tapper this Monday following the Democrats' cave on the government shutdown and immediately threw cold water on the notion that we'll ever see a vote on extending the ACA tax subsidies in the House:
“The problem is when you’re subsidizing insurance companies, they just jack the rates up even higher,” Johnson said. “I mean, we’ve been seeing this over and over and over. So the solution is to get …at the root causes.”
Johnson said House Republicans have “a lot of ideas that we’d like to bring back to the table, because that will actually solve the problem and not just subsidize insurance companies.”
Tapper asked, “So you’re not committing to bringing up a bill that deals with the Obamacare subsidies before they expire?”
“I’m not committing to it or not committing to it!” Johnson said. “What I’m saying is that we do a deliberative process. That’s the way this always works, and we have to have time to do that. And we will in a bipartisan fashion.”