For Immediate Release
June 1, 2025
Contact: Taylor Haulsee
WASHINGTON — This morning, Speaker Johnson joined Kristen Welker on NBC’s Meet the Press to further dispel myths about the One Big Beautiful Bill.
“The One Big Beautiful Bill is a big first step to provide relief for the American people, to give everybody more take home pay, more money in their pocket, and to change the trajectory of the country,” Speaker Johnson said. “And again, it’s the first of a number of steps. And President Trump is committed to doing this.”
Watch the full interview here
On the CBO discounting economic growth:
The CBO sometimes gets projections correct, but they’re always off every single time when they project economic growth. They always underestimate the growth that will be brought about by tax cuts and reduction in regulations. When we did this in 2017, the first two years of the Trump administration, we literally brought about the greatest economy in the history of the world, not just the US. Because we got the government off the backs of the people who create the jobs. And we’ve allowed hardworking Americans to have more money in their pocket that they could take home. We’re doing that again. Remember in this big beautiful bill, the reason we call it that is because there’s benefits for everybody. It’s geared for hardworking Americans, lower and middle income Americans. No tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on interest on car loans if you buy products made in the USA.
We’re going to give relief to seniors on social security. There’s so many benefits and features in this bill, and it’s going to allow everybody to do better. And at the same time, projecting and ensuring the largest amount of savings literally in history. There’s no government on planet Earth that’s ever saved over $1.6 trillion in a piece of legislation. This one does. And so when you reduce government spending and you allow people to keep more of their hard-earned money, the economy grows. And that’s exactly what’s going to happen here.
On Republican efforts to strengthen Medicaid:
There are no Medicaid cuts in the big beautiful bill. We we’re not cutting Medicaid. What we’re doing is strengthening the program. We’re reducing fraud, waste, and abuse that is rampant in Medicaid to ensure that program, which is essential for so many people, ensure that it’s available for the most vulnerable. It’s intended for young, single pregnant women and the disabled and the elderly. But what’s happening right now is you have a lot of people, for example, young men, able-bodied workers who are on Medicaid. They’re not working when they can; that drains resources from the people that need it most. And so, what we’re doing here is an important and frankly, heroic thing to preserve the program so that it doesn’t become insolvent. This is not going to hurt rural hospitals. There’s a lot of flex flexibility built into this.
They keep saying that, you know, 7.6 million people is the figure that are supposedly going to be affected by this. But when you look at those numbers and you break them down, this is high on public opinion polling, you’re talking about 1.4 million illegal aliens that are receiving Medicaid right now. They’re not entitled to that. This is for US citizens in those vulnerable populations. There’s about 4.8 million people that they’re referring to that are able-bodied workers. If you are able to work and you’re not, and you are riding on the public wagon, you need to help pull it. And by the way, Kristen, this is no draconian requirement. All we are requiring in the legislation is 20 hours a week. You can volunteer in your community. You can be in a job training program or you can get to work.
On Democrat lies about “millionaire” tax cuts:
That’s a Democrat talking point. This is not giving tax cuts to millionaires. It’s the opposite. The people in the tax bracket that you’re referring to, many of them are small business owners. They are the people that provide the jobs in every community in America. They use pass through taxation. And, we don’t want to to get in the weeds, we don’t have time to get into the complications of it, but we are the party that reduces taxes for all Americans. And I’m telling you, the one big beautiful bill is geared for hardworking Americans. The biggest beneficiaries of this will be low and middle income Americans. That’s what we did in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. That’s what we’ll do again, by extending those tax cuts in perpetuity and making them permanent. That was a major promise of the president on the campaign trail. It’s a major promise of ours and we are going to fulfill it. The Republican Party is doing right by the American people and they’re going to feel the effects of that soon.
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