MaKail Crawford
Oct 28, 2025
Today I caught the tail end of Republican Speaker Mike Johnson's (R-LA) news conference on Day 28 of the Government Shutdown.
He presents himself well. Albeit a Republican, he does walk the line between impartiality fairly well. He does give his lauding to President Trump, however he does so in a manner that still backs up Republican and Executive Branch rhetoric and debate with more factual evidence rather than just shouting and blaming.
As a result, once the conference ended I visited his page on speaker.gov.
On the page I found the above infographic showcasing the cost and section of each repeal as made by democrats. Additionally, a link to the Democratic Continuing Resolution and his description on how it relates to the ongoing shutdown. From there I sourced the Resolution, found page 57, and read the repeal. However, the repeal is in "Congressionalese" so I had to do so more translating and more research to "...[look] at the things which are not seen" (II Corinthians 4:18 NKJV). And in doing so discovered that page 57 of the Democratic Continuing Resolution indirectly repeals the unnamed Working Families Tax Cut.
Section 2141 reads as such:
SEC. 2141. REPEAL OF HEALTH SUBTITLE CHANGES.
Subtitle B of title VII of the Act titled ‘‘An Act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14’’ (Public Law 119–21) is repealed and any law or regulation referred to in such subtitle shall be applied as if such subtitle and the amendments made by such sub- title had not been enacted.
The section itself repeals the health spending safeguard clause, Subtitle B of Title VII refers to the health safeguards section Title VII itself refers to the health title inside the Working Families Tax Cut/ One Big Beautiful Bill Act, and the Public Law 119-21 refers directly to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
I do all this so that I am aware and knowing of the political information I'm consuming instead of simply believing in the words of people who've been trained to sway masses with heir voices and posture.
So yes, Speaker Mike Johnson's stance on the effects of the Democrats' repeal is in fact correct.