Mike Johnson's "prayer request": A GOP budget that slashes Medicaid to pay for Trump's tax cuts [View all]

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House Speaker Mike Johnson asked supporters to pray for a budget proposal that would slash social welfare spending

By Russell Payne February 25, 2025 5:15AM (EST)


With House Republicans discussing major reductions in Medicaid spending, Democrats — who have been largely cut out of the budget process — are bracing to fight against the anticipated cuts in committees and on the floor of Congress, potentially aided by cracks forming in the GOP caucus over how far to go to pay for President Donald Trump's mass deportations and tax cuts for the wealthy.

The House is expected to vote on its budget blueprint as early as Tuesday. House Republican leadership has proposed some $880 billion in cuts from programs managed by the Energy and Commerce Committee; $230 billion in cuts from programs managed by the Agriculture Committee; and $330 billion in cuts from programs managed by the Education and Workforce Committee. In total, such deep cuts would necessarily mean slashing Medicaid, SNAP benefits and other services.


The cuts are intended to pay for the extension of Trump's 2017 tax cuts, which disproportionately benefit corporations and wealthy Americans. Those and other tax cuts under consideration could cost as much as $11.2 trillion in lost federal revenue over 10 years, according to the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.

The House is expected to vote on this budget blueprint Tuesday, which will officially kick off the budget process in the House if Republicans manage to push it through.

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“This is a prayer request. Just pray this through for us, because it is very high stakes,” Johnson said at an Americans For Prosperity event. “The thing about having a small majority is it brings great clarity. It’s clarifying. I don’t think anybody wants to be in front of this train.”.......................

Read more: https://www.salon.com/2025/02/25/mike-johnsons-prayer-request-a-budget-that-slashes-medicaid-to-pay-for-cuts/

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Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) departs a House Republican Conference Meeting at the U.S. Capitol on February 11, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)