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Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) slammed House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) for claiming the GOP's stopgap funding bill won't cut entitlements like Medicare, Medicaid or Social Security.
Crockett appeared on CNN Tuesday after Johnson's morning press conference during which he blamed Democrats for "lying" about the cuts.
"Wolf, you've been talking about a stopgap," Crockett said to anchor Wolf Blitzer. "Everybody is talking about a stopgap. The continuing resolution. But it's not a stopgap. Right? Because, for everyone at home, just know that our bills, when we do appropriations, they are for one year, and they go from September to September. This isn't a stopgap. They've not been able to pass their own appropriations bills out of the House in the entire year. And so now they want to do this all the way to September. They never would have passed the appropriations!"
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Johnson said he planned for a House vote Tuesday on the "clean" funding bill that did not contain the cuts Democrats were claiming. But Crockett said the Republicans aren't telling the whole story when they say there will be "no cuts to Medicare, Medicaid or Social Security." She claimed that they haven't done the upfront work needed to get to the cuts, but they aren't guaranteeing they won't make them in the future.
"Yeah, so it is interesting that obviously...they passed the budget resolution that is going to require them to go into these cuts, but they've not got their single bills passed. We've got 12 specific kind of categories, and so, for everybody at home, when you think about it, when you're paying your bills, you've got your electricity, you've got your house note, you've got that. So that's what we do. We have 12 separate bills, and they've not been able to pass those 12 individual bills. And in those, that is where they are prescribing for the cuts to those specific programs."
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