Johnson was broadcasting from the office of Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) hours after the GOP's “Big Beautiful Bill” passed the House. The bill reportedly contains many measures cutting Medicaid, SNAP (aka as food stamps), and more.
Benny Johnson podcast guest claims it's “a total lie” that the GOP legislation cuts Medicaid from millions of Americans
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From the May 22, 2025, edition of The Benny Show, streamed on YouTube
BENNY JOHNSON (HOST): So we got Hakeem Jeffries, squad. We got Hakeem Jeffries. You were trolling Hakeem Jeffries yesterday. Let's do this as a full play. Show some of your work, and then you can you can unpack it for us.
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JOHNSON: Dude, this is such powerful work, man. Just having a single adversarial question to ask of these people is so important because all they get nothing but bootlicking. I don't wanna name names, but, like, from even, conservative -- like, what would be considered right —
NICK SORTOR (GUEST): Yeah.
JOHNSON: The press corps of the right, it's nothing but, like, how are you doing today? How do you feel? Right? Like, that's what you get.
SORTOR: Yeah. What color is your nail polish today, AOC?
JOHNSON: That's right.
SORTOR: That's typically what they end up getting. And so —
JOHNSON: From right-wing journalists, they still ask questions like this.
SORTOR: Right. And the way that the media is controlled here, it's like a cartel. I mean, it's very difficult to get a hard media pass here, and they do that intentionally because they don't want you asking these hard questions. So, you know, I just find them when they're outside or when they don't expect it. You know, because Hakeem, this whole time talking about the big beautiful bill, he was, using talking points. Right? These lies. Like, Medicaid — we're gonna cut — millions and millions of Americans are gonna lose their health insurance. I mean, which is total lie. Total lie. And so I was like, OK. You know what? If you're not gonna answer my emails, I'm just gonna go and find you. And so I did, and he was not ready for that at all.