{"id":9011,"date":"2025-11-13T19:56:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T19:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=9011"},"modified":"2025-11-13T19:56:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T19:56:11","slug":"we-caught-them-speaker-johnson-goes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=9011","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We Caught Them\u2019 \u2014 Speaker Johnson Goes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Speaker Johnson Criticizes Democrats Over Healthcare \u2018Poison Pill\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>House Speaker&nbsp;<strong>Mike Johnson (R-La.)<\/strong>&nbsp;accused Democrats of trying to slip a<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cpoison pill\u201d into the latest government funding bill,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>saying they removed key Republican provisions aimed at lowering healthcare costs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In an interview with&nbsp;<em>Newsmax<\/em>, Johnson said the&nbsp;<strong>Affordable Care Act subsidies<\/strong>\u2014set to expire at year\u2019s end\u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>are \u201cdriving premiums up even higher.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lunarsociety24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_6462-1024x543.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3759\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>He argued, \u201cWe don\u2019t want to throw good money at a broken and failing system.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Johnson claimed Republicans\u2019&nbsp;<em>One Big Beautiful Bill Act<\/em>&nbsp;would have&nbsp;<strong>cut healthcare premiums by 12.7%<\/strong>,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>but Democrats \u201cfought to take it out.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He added, \u201cMerely subsidizing something is not the answer.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With subsidies expiring December 31, Johnson called the issue \u201curgent\u201d and vowed to propose&nbsp;<strong>bipartisan reforms<\/strong>&nbsp;to reduce costs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDemocrats\u2026 want a completely unreformed continuation,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re going to come up with reforms that will actually solve the problem and not make it worse.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Johnson Criticizes Democrats Over Healthcare \u2018Poison Pill\u2019 House Speaker&nbsp;Mike Johnson (R-La.)&nbsp;accused Democrats of trying to slip a \u201cpoison pill\u201d into the latest government funding bill, saying they removed key Republican provisions aimed at lowering healthcare costs. In an interview with&nbsp;Newsmax, Johnson said the&nbsp;Affordable Care Act subsidies\u2014set to expire at year\u2019s end\u2014 are \u201cdriving premiums&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9013,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9011\/revisions\/9013"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}