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Related: About this forumHouse Speaker Mike Johnson says Medicaid cuts in Trump bill have a "moral component" - Face the Nation
Speaker Mike Johnson, who oversaw the passage of Trump's "big, beautiful bill" in the House, insisted to "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" that projections that nearly 200,000 people in his home state of Louisiana will lose Medicaid under the bill are actually targeting "waste, fraud and abuse." "There's a moral component to what we're doing," he said. - Aired on 05/25/2025.
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House Speaker Mike Johnson says Medicaid cuts in Trump bill have a "moral component" - Face the Nation (Original Post)
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Irish_Dem
(69,975 posts)1. Trump and his pals are guilty of the most waste, fraud, abuse in US history.
They keep projecting those crimes onto everyone else.
speak easy
(11,518 posts)2. The moral is give to the rich what you take from the poor.
Duncanpup
(14,518 posts)3. A Bullshit spewing prick.
C_U_L8R
(47,352 posts)4. The glasses disguise isn't fooling anyone.

unblock
(55,153 posts)5. Some decade, when we eventually gave the power to tax the rich at 50%, we'll blame it on waste, fraud, and abuse.
The talk about waste, fraud, and abuse, the make cuts that affect everyone, mostly people who are using the programs honestly and as intended.
And they also cut funds for enforcement, actually creating more waste, fraud, and abuse.
Timeflyer
(3,173 posts)6. Moral component--that's how they justified burning heretics and 'witches'.
Deep State Witch
(11,817 posts)7. "Moral" My Ass
Their idea of "moral" is the idea that those who can't work shouldn't eat. Not quite the morality that Jesus taught.
Bluepinky
(2,426 posts)8. Blah, blah, blah, nothing to hear here but BS.