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Speaker Johnson on Squawk Box: Democrats Want Health Care Premiums as a Political Issue; House Republicans Are Fixing the Problem

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WASHINGTON — This morning, Speaker Johnson joined Becky Quick and Andrew Ross Sorkin on CNBC’s Squawk Box to discuss the Lower Health Care Premiums for All Americans Act — House Republicans’ bill to lower premium costs for all Americans, increase health care access, expand health care choices, and bring greater transparency to America’s health care system. Watch Speaker Johnson’s full interview he...

Speaker Johnson: Democrats Broke America’s Health Care System; Republicans are Working to Fix It

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WASHINGTON — This morning, at the weekly House Republican Leadership press conference, Speaker Johnson discussed House Republicans’ efforts to lower health care premiums for all Americans, increase health care access, expand health care choices, and bring greater transparency to America’s health care system through the Lower Health Care Premiums for All Americans Act. Speaker Johnson also highligh...

House Republicans Target Biden’s Open Border Failures that Killed Kayla Hamilton

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WASHINGTON — Speaker Johnson released the following statement after the House passed H.R. 4371, the Kayla Hamilton Act, which closes dangerous loopholes that allowed unaccompanied alien children (UACs) with criminal or gang affiliations, including MS-13 ties, to exploit the system under President Biden. It also ensures future administrations cannot repeat the reckless Biden-era policies that endan...

Wall Street Journal Editorial Board: The GOP’s Better Healthcare Ideas

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WASHINGTON — Today’s editorial from the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board endorses House Republicans’ Lower Health Care Premiums for All Americans Act. “ObamaCare’s structure was shaky by design, and now Democrats want to keep shovelling out subsidies to hide their errors. Repairing the damage the law has done to competition in healthcare markets is a bigger undertaking than the House bill attem...

House Passes Reforms to Unlock the Full Potential of the Working Families Tax Cuts

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WASHINGTON — Speaker Johnson released the following statement to highlight House Republicans’ continued work to implement a pro-growth agenda through commonsense deregulation and long-overdue reforms with the passage of this week’s House bills. “House Republicans continue to implement a pro-growth agenda that puts hard hats back on American workers, gets shovels in the ground, and unleashes the ec...

GAO Report on Obamacare: Massive Fraud, Fake Identities, Zero Safeguards

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WASHINGTON — A recent investigation by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has exposed extraordinary levels of fraud and abuse inside the Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace — including fake identities receiving subsidies, widespread misuse of Social Security numbers (SSN), billions in unreconciled payments, and insurers collecting tax credits on behalf of deceased individuals. These find...

House Republicans Release Legislation to Lower Health Care Premiums for All Americans

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WASHINGTON — House Republicans today released the Lower Health Care Premiums for All Americans Act — legislation that lowers health care premiums, increases health care access, expands health care choices, and brings greater transparency to America’s health care system. The legislation will be considered in the House next week. “Nearly 15 years ago, the Democrats’ Unaffordable Care Act broke the A...

Shreveport Times: “Barksdale, Other Louisiana Bases Score Big Wins in Defense Bill”

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WASHINGTON — Yesterday, the House of Representatives passed The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026 (FY26 NDAA), which includes major improvements to servicemember quality of life, ensures our warfighters remain the most lethal and well-equipped in the world, and codifies all or part of 15 of President Trump’s executive orders to promote his Peace Through Strength agenda. Addit...

Speaker Johnson: Democrats Don’t Want a Solution to Fix Their Broken Health Care System

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WASHINGTON — This morning, at the weekly House Republican Leadership press conference, Speaker Johnson discussed Republican efforts to fix the Democrats’ broken health care system and addressed their refusal to support cost sharing reductions – included in the House-passed version of the Working Families Tax Cuts – reforms Democrats used to support that would have lowered health care premiums by 1...

FY26 NDAA: Rebuilding American Power Through President Trump’s Peace Through Strength Agenda

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WASHINGTON — This week, House Republicans are advancing the FY26 NDAA — the centerpiece of President Trump’s Peace Through Strength Agenda and the plan to restore unmatched American military dominance. This legislation rebuilds a lethal warfighting edge, ends Biden’s woke agenda in the military, keeps the border secured, and reestablishes real deterrence after years of weakness. It enacts key Trum...

Speaker Johnson, Congressional Leaders Host Capitol Menorah Lighting

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WASHINGTON — This afternoon, Speaker Johnson, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, and House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries hosted the third annual Capitol Menorah Lighting Ceremony to commemorate upcoming the eight-day festival of Hanukkah. Reps. Craig Goldman and Randy Fine and Rabbi Levi Shemtov joined Congressional leaders at the ceremony. Watch Speaker Johnson’s full remarks here. Below a...

Speaker Johnson Advances Key Louisiana Defense Provisions in FY26 NDAA

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WASHINGTON — Today, Speaker Johnson commended House passage of S. 1017, The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026 (FY26 NDAA). This annual legislation includes major priorities for the Louisiana military community, particularly Barksdale Air Force Base and Air Force Global Strike Command, Fort Polk and the Joint Readiness Training Center, and Camp Minden. “This year’s National De...

Speaker Johnson and Israeli Speaker Amir Ohana Officially Launch Effort to Coordinate with Legislative Leaders Around the World to Nominate President Trump for 2026 Nobel Peace Prize

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WASHINGTON — Speaker Mike Johnson and Speaker of the Israeli Knesset Amir Ohana today officially launched their effort to rally Speakers and Presidents of Parliaments around the world to join them in nominating President Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2026 following President Trump’s work to secure the return of all living hostages, establish lasting security for Israel, and deliver the framew...

Speaker Johnson Statement on the FY26 NDAA

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WASHINGTON — Speaker Johnson released the following statement on S. 1017, The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026. “This year’s National Defense Authorization Act helps advance President Trump and Republicans’ Peace Through Strength Agenda by codifying 15 of President Trump’s executive orders, ending woke ideology at the Pentagon, securing the border, revitalizing the defense i...

House Republicans are Protecting America’s Classrooms from Foreign Influence

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WASHINGTON — Speaker Johnson issued the following statement after the House passed three commonsense measures this week – the PROTECT Our Kids Act, the TRACE Act, and the CLASS Act – to increase transparency in America’s schools and protect students from adversarial foreign influence and propaganda. “This week’s House passage of the PROTECT Our Kids Act, the TRACE Act, and the CLASS Act are victor...