Fiscal Responsibility

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… Read more »

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… Read more »

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 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 — 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 »

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… Read more »

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… Read more »

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… Read more »