{"id":20785,"date":"2026-06-26T09:41:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T09:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=20785"},"modified":"2026-06-26T09:41:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T09:41:32","slug":"we-caught-them-speaker-johnson-goes-public-exposes-poison-pill-dems-tried-to-sneak-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=20785","title":{"rendered":"We Caught Them\u2019 \u2014 Speaker Johnson Goes Public, Exposes \u2018Poison Pill\u2019 Dems Tried To Sneak In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"84\" data-end=\"306\">Speaker Mike Johnson says Democrats removed a Republican proposal that he claims would have lowered health insurance premiums by <strong data-start=\"213\" data-end=\"222\">12.7%<\/strong> and instead pushed to extend Affordable Care Act subsidies without broader reforms.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"308\" data-end=\"569\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">With ACA subsidies set to expire and healthcare costs rising, Johnson argues Republicans want long-term reforms while Democrats are relying on taxpayer-funded subsidies. The debate is expected to intensify as Congress faces key funding and healthcare deadlines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Speaker Mike Johnson says Democrats removed a Republican proposal that he claims would have lowered health insurance premiums by 12.7% and instead pushed to extend <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=20785\" title=\"We Caught Them\u2019 \u2014 Speaker Johnson Goes Public, Exposes \u2018Poison Pill\u2019 Dems Tried To Sneak In\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20786,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20787,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20785\/revisions\/20787"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}