Press Releases

WASHINGTON — Speaker Johnson released the following statement commending CMS’s announcement of the Rural Health Transformation Program awardees for Fiscal Year 2026, an important step to improve access to affordable, quality health care for more than 61 million Americans living in rural communities. The program was established by the Working Families Tax Cut legislation and… Read more »

WASHINGTON — This weekend, Speaker Johnson published an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal highlighting House Republicans’ historic accomplishments during the first session of the 119th Congress. “Even with the slimmest of congressional majorities and historic obstruction from Democrats, President Trump and Republicans have kept our promises, restored order… Read more »

WASHINGTON — During the 2025 legislative year, House Republicans and President Trump advanced the most aggressive Republican agenda in recent memory, despite one of the narrowest House majorities in modern history. The unified Republican agenda focused on putting money back in the pockets of American families and putting America first, through lower… Read more »

WASHINGTON — Speaker Johnson released the following statement to highlight House Republicans’ continued work to implement a pro-growth agenda through overdue permitting reforms and commonsense deregulation with the passage of this week’s House bills. “The House is fixing a broken permitting system that has driven up costs and blocked critical American energy and infrastructure… Read more »

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… Read more »

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… Read more »

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… Read more »

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… Read more »

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… Read more »

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… Read more »