Fiscal Responsibility

Speaker Johnson: Republican Policies Are Reversing the Democrats' Cost of Living Crisis

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WASHINGTON — This morning, at the weekly House Republican Leadership press conference, Speaker Johnson discussed Republican efforts to drive down gas prices, rebuild the public trust in Congress through The Stop Insider Trading Act, and finish the FY26 appropriations process. “Thanks to sound economic and energy policy that has restored American energy dominance, those days of…

Pandemic-Era Obamacare Subsidies are a Magnet for Fraud

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WASHINGTON — House Democrats will attempt today to extend pandemic-era Obamacare subsidies without any reforms whatsoever. Minnesota’s abundance of recent fraud scandals demonstrates exactly why that’s a mistake. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) report released last month confirms the same subsidies are already flowing to fake identities, duplicate Social Security numbers, and…

Speaker Johnson: There is Only One Party Capable of Restoring American Greatness, and It’s the Republicans

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WASHINGTON — This morning, at the first weekly House Republican Leadership press conference of 2026, Speaker Johnson discussed yesterday’s House Republican kickoff policy summit, Congressional Democrats in disarray over the ousting of Nicolas Maduro, and the constitutionality of the Trump Administration’s successful actions in Venezuela. Speaker Johnson also…

Speaker Johnson Statement on FY26 Appropriations

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WASHINGTON — Speaker Johnson released the following statement on the FY26 appropriations process and the next set of bills to be considered on the House floor this week. The FY26 Energy and Water Development, Commerce-Justice-Science, and Interior-Environment conference bills underscore House Republicans’ commitment to restoring regular order and completing annual…

Speaker Johnson Highlights Historic Health Care Investments for Rural America

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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…

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…

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…

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…