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Speaker Johnson answers MTG: GOP leaders plugged into expiration of enhanced Obamacare subsidies

House Speaker Mike Johnson defended himself and fellow GOP leaders after Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene criticized them for lacking a plan to deal with the expiring COVID expansion of Obamacare subsidies. 
“There’s a lot of work that’s been done on that,” Mr. Johnson, Louisiana Republican, said Tuesday. “It’s implied as if this has been some sort of ignored issue. It’s not that at all.”

Ms. Greene, Georgia Republican, took to social media on Monday to announce her support for extending the enhanced Obamacare subsidies, which Democrats are demanding to reopen the government.

It was a notable break from other right-wing lawmakers who want to see the pandemic expansion expire at year’s end. 
“It is absolutely shameful, disgusting, and traitorous, that our laws and policies screw the American people so much that the government i …

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