Washington, D.C. – Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) strongly criticized House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) on Tuesday for claiming that the GOP’s stopgap funding bill would not result in cuts to entitlement programs such as Medicare, Medicaid, or Social Security.
Crockett joined CNN’s Wolf Blitzer following Johnson’s morning press conference, in which he accused Democrats of “lying” about the proposed cuts. “Wolf, you’ve been talking about a stopgap,” Crockett told Blitzer. “Everybody is talking about a stopgap.
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The continuing resolution. But it’s not a stopgap, right? Because, for everyone at home, just know that our bills, when we do appropriations, are for one year, and they go from September to September. This isn’t a stopgap. They’ve not been able to pass their own appropriations bills out of the House in the entire year.
And so now they want to do this all the way to September. They never would have passed the appropriations!” Johnson insisted that a House vote would take place Tuesday on what he described as a “clean” funding bill, free from entitlement cuts. However, Crockett argued that Republicans were being misleading in their messaging.
While the bill may not explicitly cut Medicare, Medicaid, or Social Security now, she contended that GOP lawmakers had laid the groundwork for future reductions. “Yeah, so it is interesting that obviously…they passed the budget resolution that is going to require them to go into these cuts, but they’ve not got their single bills passed,” Crockett explained.
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“We’ve got 12 specific kinds of categories, and so, for everybody at home, when you think about it when you’re paying your bills, you’ve got your electricity, you’ve got your house note, you’ve got that. So that’s what we do. We have 12 separate bills, and they’ve not been able to pass those 12 individual bills. And in those, that is where they are prescribing for the cuts to those specific programs.”
Crockett’s comments highlight a growing partisan battle over government funding, with Democrats warning that the GOP’s legislative approach could pave the way for future spending reductions affecting critical social programs. With government funding deadlines looming, the debate over spending priorities remains a key flashpoint in Congress.
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