House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) fired back at a group of swing-district Republicans during an interview with Becky Quick on CNBC’s Squawk Box Wednesday, over reports that some of them are considering crossing over to back a Democratic discharge petition to force a vote on extending Affordable Care Act subsidies without his approval.
“I hope not,” said Johnson when asked about the possibility by Quick, saying it would be an “end run around the majority party, the speaker, the regular process.”
Johnson said Republicans are looking at doing another reconciliation bill in the next quarter to force through their own health care reform ideas — a clear sign they would like to do this without Democratic votes. “Republicans are the ones who will fix health care. It is Democrats who broke it,” he said.
Quick pressed him on the impending loss of coverage and increased premiums for millions of Americans, to which he repeated that he considers it Democrats’ fault.
Even if Democrats manage to get four crossover Republican votes to pass the discharge petition, approval of an extension on the ACA enhanced subsidies would have to be approved by the Senate, where an identical measure was rejected last week.
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