Mike Johnson Mocks Millions Who Could Lose Medicaid: 'Do Something Constructive'

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

If President Donald Trump’s tax bill becomes law, millions of people are expected to lose access to Medicaid, the government insurance program for low-income and disabled Americans.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) doesn’t feel bad for them — and has argued, in fact, that stripping their health care is the “moral” thing to do. Johnson’s message to these millions of people on Tuesday was to insult them. “For heaven’s sake, do something constructive,” he said at a press conference on Capitol Hill, arguing the legislation simply brings “common sense” to the Medicaid program.

Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” would authorize another round of tax cuts for the rich — and it would be financed, in part, with sweeping cuts to Medicaid.

Some of these savings would be achieved by imposing work requirements on all supposedly “able-bodied” adults on Medicaid under the age of 65, demanding they either work or volunteer at least 20 hours a week. Medicaid contains strict income caps mandating that recipients earn little money — so the new work requirements are effectively a demand that recipients toil in low-wage jobs in order to maintain their health insurance.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/mike-johnson-mocks-millions-could-203430774.html

Mighty Xtian of you Mike.

[spanone]

1. He appears more satanist than Christian to me.

[aocommunalpunch]

3. Satanists can be good people.

Mike Johnson cannot be good nor a person.

[milestogo]

23. Sadist.

[Mariana]

24. Christianity is as Christianity does.

Most Christian voters cast their ballots for Trump three times.

[spanone]

25. Sad...

— KD🪐🦁🇻🇪 (@burnttoast88.bsky.social) 2025-06-25T05:05:50.285Z

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. Blue Storm Surge 2026 would be constructive. Careful what you pray for, Moses Mike. . . . nt

[AltairIV]

4. So...

"....do something constructive..." that's rich coming from a professional politican, the most useless lifeform on the planet.

[allegorical oracle]

14. Mikey's disconnected from reality. Seems all Repugs believe they're the only people

who work hard. Everybody else is lounging around eating chocolates all day.

[Klarkashton]

5. There are only so many factories making bombs

For the military. You know the kind of places that the govt supports that pay for medical insurance.

[CentralMass]

6. Well there is always becoming a masked bounty hunter for tRump.

[Traildogbob]

7. Constructive ?????

Like Mitch said. “Get over it”
Exactly what Jesus told poor and sick people.
“Get over it assholes, daddy has priorities”. Rich people.
Eat shit in hell Moses. He is as fake as Trump hair, color, religion, height, waist size and golf victories.
May RFK Jr health care make an Example of him and his smirk. An extremely painful lesson, as we smirk.

[Snarkoleptic]

8. maga Mike needs to be confronted with facts about Medicaid in Louisiana.

KFF has data by State at the link-
https://www.kff.org/interactive/medicaid-state-fact-sheets/

Medicaid in Louisiana May 2025 - 1,856,000 children and adults are enrolled in Louisiana Medicaid
Among all Medicaid enrollees in Louisiana:
3 in 8 (36%) are children
1 in 5 (20%) live in a rural area
1 in 6 (18%) have three or more chronic conditions

LA expansion status: Adopted
Adults in expansion group: 785,000

A majority (69%) of Medicaid adults are working in Louisiana

Medicaid covers from 31% to 47% of people in LA’s congressional districts

[B.See]

9. No, Mikey, how 'bout YOU do something CONSTRUCTIVE

on behalf of AMERICANS, instead of your filthy rich fascists, you SPINELESS FUCK.

[Initech]

10. Hey Mike, how about you start doing something constructive and stop being a Murdoch / Trump stooge?

[Demovictory9]

11. He uses a no-porn app to keep himself off porno.

[sinkingfeeling]

12. You go first, Mikey. Do something constructive.

[valleyrogue]

13. He is an absolute POS.

The great bulk of the money spent in Medicaid are for those people in nursing homes. They can't work, and they aren't bums.

Single mothers with ten kids from ten different fathers on Medicaid "milking the system" is a myth and always was.

What an asshole Mike Johnson is. Still pandering to the b.s. "politics of resentment."

[C_U_L8R]

15. Mike Johnson's Jesus

... taught him to stomp on the poor for they are only slackers and leeches.

What an asshole.

[hlthe2b]

16. Mikey, you just might find out that taunting the desperate can result in consequences you'd not intended...

but that you may well deserve, given your fake piety and complete lack of compassion and empathy.

[Qutzupalotl]

17. "...while I continue the destruction."

Hypocrite.

[kentuck]

18. If voters wanted to do something "constructive"...

They could vote out the faux Christian that aims to make all his people's lives much more difficult. He is a plastic man, a quisling, a coward, a traitor to our country.

[Bristlecone]

19. Says one of the least constructive people in government

[sakabatou]

20. Man, what an asshole

[peggysue2]

21. Hard to make a call on who's the worst in this argument/complaint

Over drastic cuts to life-saving health care benefits.

Mike Johnson: Oh for Heaven's sake, do something constructive

Or,

Mitch McConnell: They'll get over it

Or,

Joni Ernst: We're all going to die

Joni has my vote with that extra effort, a stroll through a cemetery. Oscar bound!

Brought to you by Republicans, otherwise known as The Death Party

[bdamomma]

27. Their arrogance

and true hatred of Americans is disgusting. Such bastards.

[moondust]

22. Question for Mike:

Hey Mike, are you, Mitch, Joni, and the gang going to use the savings from gutting Medicaid to set up some regional camps for those former Medicaid patients to get together and let their illnesses run their course?

You know...death camps.

[bdamomma]

26. That response

that Mike the snake Johnson made doesn't sound to Christian to me.

What a POS he is.

[OrlandoDem2]

28. I'd like Democrats to point out that in real first world countries healthcare is a right.

In America you have to find the right job to have healthcare.

We are feudal serfs to our corporate masters who tie healthcare to employment.

[Clouds Passing]

29. Hey Mikey, Do something not destructive to humans and earth!

[DonCoquixote]

30. Volunteer, you mean tat the places

That would never hire or even want volunteer work from anyone not recommended by the local ham-fisted churches? Mike's idea of constructive is whatever lets him get a paycheck while sucking up to Trump, even as fellow maga have called for his head because he does not shovel people, into the furnace fast enough.

[Just_Vote_Dem]

31. Hey Mikey, at least people on medicaid

Aren't trying to DESTROY THE COUNTRY!!!!!!

[TomSlick]

32. According to Newsweek 32.4% of the Louisiana population is on Medicaid.

https://www.newsweek.com/maga-medicaid-which-states-have-highest-beneficiaries-2033077

If a significant part of these folks are thrown off Medicaid, hospitals in Louisiana will close. I cannot understand how this is politically attractive to any Congress member from the state. To remain Speaker, he must first be re-elected.