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Chapter 1: Why is MAGA Mike Johnson in the hot seat?
MAGA Mike Johnson walking away from reporters, MAGA Mike Johnson is once again in the hot seat. His job is on the line as there is massive infighting in the MAGA Republican Party. In that clip I just showed at the outset of this video, MAGA Mike Johnson was asked why Donald Trump say that he doesn't know if he needs to follow the Constitution, to which MAGA Mike said you can't expect Donald Trump
to know about all of those Supreme Court cases. I do. I do expect the President of the United States to know about Supreme Court cases, but more fundamentally, Maga Mike Johnson, I expect Donald Trump to know about the United States Constitution in a very, basic concept we have here in the United States called due process. But that's not why MAGA Mike Johnson is on the hot seat.
Chapter 2: What is the controversy over the 'big beautiful bill'?
It's because he's trying to push through what Donald Trump is calling one big, beautiful bill through a reconciliation process between the House of Representatives and the Senate. And as we've reported before, under the blueprint that was originally passed by the MAGA Republicans, which calls for, in theory, trillions of dollars in cuts, those cuts are coming from Medicaid.
Those cuts are coming from education. Those cuts are coming from agriculture. Those cuts are coming from infrastructure, while the billionaires are getting massive, massive tax cuts. You know, the Congressional Budget Office came out with a report today at the request of Democrats and the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.
Chapter 3: How will the proposed budget cuts affect Medicaid?
Let me repeat, nonpartisan CBO analysis of various Republican plans for Medicaid spending reveals that under every scenario laid out by the GOP, millions would lose insurance. The GOP's plans would have a disproportionate impact on low-income and elderly populations. Literally millions of people would lose their health care. Because there's going to be $800 billion plus in cuts to Medicaid.
How do we know it? Because we can read their one big beautiful bill and see it. But you see what's happening right now, folks, is that the MAGA Republicans are fighting each other because they are seeing, whoa, whoa, whoa, it's almost 2026. The midterms are getting closer. Can you believe that, folks? Yes, hang in there. The midterms, before you know it, are going to be right around the corner.
And these MAGA Republican Congress members are seeing Republicans get beat in seats during special elections. They're seeing Supreme Court races in states where Democrats have won big. And they're saying, uh-oh, are we next? And the answer is yes. So they're saying, you can't cut Medicaid, you know, MAGA Mike, because if you cut Medicaid, we're definitely going to lose.
Our best shot of staying in power is if you don't cut Medicaid. Let's take a look right here at this article from CNN. House GOP infighting turns ugly over Trump's big, beautiful bill. That's what he's calling it. And he's making all the MAGA Republicans refer to it as the big, beautiful bill because they're fascist toddlers.
Chapter 4: What is causing GOP infighting over Trump's bill?
It says Donald Trump's big, beautiful bill is running into a wall in the sharply divided House Republican conference with tension spiking over MAGA Mike Johnson handling of the party's biggest sticking point.
overhauling medicaid as johnson presses for a house vote before memorial day the battle lines are becoming more pronounced the republicans in swing districts are saying the sweeping bill can't slash social safety net benefits while gop hardliners are saying but Bye, Medicaid. We don't care if people die and get sick, and they're demanding trillions of cuts, many that would be in Medicaid.
Those frustrations emerged in a two-hour meeting in Johnson's leadership suite on Tuesday night in which the speaker huddled with a roughly dozen GOP centrists. What's a GOP centrist today? But okay, I'll bite. A GOP centrist who have refused to back any Medicaid changes that could hurt eligible Americans who rely on the program.
Chapter 5: How does the GOP plan impact swing districts?
Inside the room, Johnson made one more attempt to sell those members on a contentious plan backed by the hard right house freedom caucus and others to sharply reduce Medicaid payments to states that expanded the program under Obamacare, according to two people in the room. His push drew a rebuke from multiple centrists. There's no such thing as a centrist when it comes to Republicans, but okay.
centrists in the room who believe that idea was already off the table. The people said, quote, we laid down the law.
One Republican member who attended the meeting said of the firm position many members took that they don't want to shift the federal match, which was like 90-10 right now, and move it all to the state, which basically means based on certain trigger laws that states have, Medicaid would go away in most states under that plan. Zero Medicaid. It would eliminate Medicaid for people.
So if you're in Medicaid, that plan shifting it to the states is a Bye-bye to your Medicaid. Johnson and his leadership team insist in the end the GOP members are going to all work together and they're going to make it all work. On the one hand, you have Andrew Garbarino from a vulnerable seat in New York, MAGA Republican. He goes, I don't want to be mean.
And I think anytime it looks like we're actually hurting people, that's going to piss off the American population. And if you piss them off, they're probably not going to vote for you. Notice that he says looks mean. Because if it didn't look that way, they'll be happy to be cruel and mean. They just don't know how to hide what they're doing right there.
And then you have all these MAGA Republicans like Chip Roy and others basically saying, bye-bye to your Medicaid. It needs to be cut. Let's take a look at MAGA Republican Speaker of the House, MAGA Mike Johnson over here. Here, you know, he's talking about the big, beautiful bill. And he's saying, this big, beautiful bill, you know, those little girls got to say bye-bye to their dolls. Why?
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Chapter 6: What are the implications of Trump's tariff policy according to the GOP?
Because Donald Trump said that little girls shouldn't have dolls or pencils. They get one doll and they get five pencils because Donald Trump's regime does central planning. And they say that's what little girls deserve.
Donald Trump and his family get to, what, they make $2.6 billion more in their crypto schemes and their resort deals with Qatar and Oman and Saudi Arabia and Abu Dhabi using their crypto coins. But your daughter or granddaughter, how dare she have more than $1? She gets $1, five pencils, and she's going to pay more for it. You understand? That's what they're saying.
And here, MAGA Mike Johnson says, we got to do it. We got to do that to the little girls. We got to be the disruptors. We got to disrupt the system and it's going to cause you pain. But you voted for pain, right? Trump equals pain. That's what you voted for. Play this clip.
The president said over the weekend that as a result of his terror policy, some kids may have fewer dolls, two and three, 20 or 30, fewer pencils, stores, prices could go up. Is that the message that you want to send to the American public?
I didn't see the interview, but I'll just say that I think what the president is trying to communicate is, as he mentioned with the tariff policy and with all the things that are happening, we had to disrupt the system and we're going to have the desired results.
I mean, as you know, by some measures, more than 100 countries now renegotiating trade agreements, which would be much more fair for the American people. And that is exactly what we were hoping and trying to achieve. What the president was trying to achieve with that tariff policy is more free and fair trade relations. And I think that will be the result. So whatever short-term...
disruption there is or discomfort. I think what he's trying to say there, I think, is that it will well pay off in the long run. And I think that will happen sooner than many people anticipate. So we're waiting to see and we'll hold the line. But reconciliation is on track. And if anybody tells you otherwise, they're not in the room with us.
Yeah, so that's the campaign they're running. The Trump causes you pain campaign. OK, no pun intended. Here's MAGA Republican Chip Roy talking about gutting Medicaid. Let's play this clip.
Look, we have an obligation to do what we said we would do. The president said we should get our deficits under control and balance the budget. He recognizes that Medicaid needs to be reformed. He said so. His office has put it out. We should deliver.
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