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House Speaker Mike Johnson has publicly accused Congressional Democrats of attempting to insert what he and GOP leaders describe as a “poison pill” into key funding legislation — a maneuver he says would undermine recent bipartisan efforts to keep the federal government funded and avoid a shutdown. In remarks at a press event in March, Johnson defended the Republican-backed continuing resolution (CR) as a “clean” funding measure, free of controversial riders or policy changes, and insisted that charges from Democratic leaders claiming otherwise were misinformation. According to Johnson, Democrats were falsely asserting that the GOP bill included cuts to major social programs such as Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security — allegations he dismissed as completely unfounded.
