Beliefs and Country: Contradictions On Display
Mike Johnson, the newly seated Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, now second in line to the Oval Office, was first elected to the House in 2016. The far-right four-term Republican Rep from Louisiana has a history that could be a danger to America and of concern to many, many American citizens (sarcasm noted).
For example, a bit of Johnson:
He led efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
He voted for a national abortion ban.
He has called for criminalizing gay sex.
He is a known Christian Nationalist; has called for “Biblically-sanctioned government.”
He supports repealing the Affordable Care Act ― a.k.a. Obamacare …
… Any doubts about that read the 2019 proposal from the Republican Study Committee, which at the time Johnson was leading. The word ‘repeal‘ appears only a few times, always in a narrow context. But the pieces of repeal legislation are all there.
These three in particular stand out (they probably would scare red state voters, also – who, by far, are on the receiving end of these benefits more than blue state voters)::
> A Rollback Of Preexisting Condition Protections
> An End To Medicaid Expansion
> Large Cuts To ‘Traditional’ Medicaid Also
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Sourced: HuffPost.com, among others.
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