Mike Johnson is no Christian, that’s for damn sure
I find it so incredibly ironic that every time Mike Johnson does one more thing to hurt the poor and middle class, he has to say a prayer. I can only wonder to whom he is praying because it’s certainly not the God most of us know. God does not do things that He knows will hurt people. That’s not who He is. Mike Johnson seems more in line with Satan.
Appearing on Face the Nation, the first thing Johnson said was: “I wish a blessed Memorial Day weekend to everybody.” Frankly, the world can do without Johnson’s “blessings,” including his “blessing” to take money from the most vulnerable in our society to give to the richest 1%. My response to his “blessing” is: I hope you burn in Hell for what you’ve done while trying to cover yourself under the cloak of God. As I’m wont to say: God don’t like ugly, and He will remember Johnson.
Johnson began his appearance with typical Republican talking point lies. He claimed that the “big, beautiful bill” (or big ugly bill, more accurately stated) will provide “historic savings for the American people.” He, of course, touted the efficiency savings created by DOGE (which are non-existent). What Johnson doesn’t mention, however, is the devastating cuts to Medicaid and Medicare. Those cuts are obviously not going to save people one dime. In fact, it will cost them as they try to find private insurance while what they currently have goes away. In addition, Republican senators are not so keen on this bill. Rand Paul’s comments on the so-called cuts include “wimpy and anemic,” “the math doesn’t add up,” and “it will explode the debt.” Ultimately, it is up to Republican senators to reject this bill and allow people to keep their health insurance and, in some cases, food. That is the ultimate savings for Americans, not trillion-dollar tax cuts for rich people.
Johnson also verbally supported Trump’s tariffs, parroting his claims that “it’s a big investment” and that it will be “jet fuel for the U.S. economy.” We’ll see who’s ultimately right about tariffs, but I will bet money that it won’t be Johnson and Trump. Brennan pointed out that in Johnson’s state alone, almost 200,000 residents will lose Medicaid coverage. Johnson continued to claim that they are not cutting Medicaid or SNAP but that they’re instead working on “fraud, abuse, and waste,” very little of which exists in the federal government. He then turned to the “4.8 million people on Medicaid” who don’t want to work, which is also a lie. Many on Medicaid are working poor, which means they are working. In fact, KFF (Kaiser Family Foundation) has compiled the numbers, and 92% of Medicaid recipients under 65 are working. In case Johson has never heard of such a phenomenon, they are called “the working poor,” which means they are working but don’t make enough to survive. We can’t all get six-figure jobs to sit in Congress and do nothing. The rest of us must work regular jobs. Congresspeople have no right to throw stones at people unless they know what they’re talking about.
Shirley is a former entertainment writer and has worked in the legal field for over 25 years