House Speaker Mike Johnson

Look, there's a lot of conservatives who have real problems with the Obamacare subsidy, okay?

When the government subsidizes something, it means it's not working.

It's like the EV mandates, you know?

People didn't want to buy electric vehicles.

The government said, we'll give you $7,500 cash if you do, and they still didn't buy enough of them, right?

When the government subsidizes something, it means the market's not working.

Obamacare was supposed to bring down the cost of healthcare.

The premiums have skyrocketed since it was created in 2010.

They're up like 60%.

So something's not working.

There's real reforms that are needed.

But it's a complex issue that takes a lot of time for members on both sides of the aisle and in both chambers to negotiate.

They're trying to short circuit all that right now.

That's not how this process works.

The Clean CR is so simple, Joe.

It's 24 pages in length.

It has exactly zero Republican policy writers on it.

We made it so simple.

We just said, do what you've always done.

Let's keep the lights on and keep the appropriations and the negotiation process going.