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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…

Speaker Johnson Delivers Remarks on “Extraordinarily Transformational” Trump Accounts at Treasury Department Event

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WASHINGTON — This morning, Speaker Johnson joined Secretary Scott Bessent for a press conference at the Treasury Department to deliver remarks about Trump Accounts – tax free savings accounts for every child born in America. House Republicans passed this transformational provision into law through the Working Families Tax Cuts. Every Democrat in Congress voted against…

The Lower Health Care Premiums for All Americans Act: Real Solutions to Lower Costs and Fix the Democrats’ Broken System

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WASHINGTON — This week, House Republicans are advancing the Lower Health Care Premiums for All Americans Act — a targeted package of reforms designed to lower premium costs for all Americans, expand access to affordable coverage, and increase transparency to drive down prices across the health care system. While Democrats continue to push for additional COVID-era subsidies that…

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

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WASHINGTON — Speaker Johnson, Leader Scalise, Whip Emmer, Chairwoman McClain, and Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks released a statement after House Republicans today passed 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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…