Greene says Johnson refused to share health care plans on GOP conference call
By Ryan Mancini
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Tuesday called out House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) for not providing any plans on a Republican alternative to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and tax subsidies set to expire at the end of the year.
“You left out that I said I have no respect for the House not being in session passing our bills and the President’s executive orders,” Greene wrote on social platform X, in response to a post from Punchbowl News’s Jake Sherman following a recent GOP conference call.
“And I demanded to know from Speaker Johnson what the Republican plan for healthcare is to build the off-ramp off Obamacare and the ACA tax credits to make health insurance affordable for Americans,” she added.
“Johnson said he’s got ideas and pages of policy ideas and committees of jurisdiction are working on it, but he refused to give one policy proposal to our GOP conference on our own conference call,” the Georgia Republican continued. “Apparently I have to go into a SCIF to find out the Republican healthcare plan!!!”
During the call, Greene also said Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) “needs to use the nuclear option and reopen the government,” according to Sherman, who translated it as, “(In other words, abolish the filibuster and pass a funding bill).
The comments come after Johnson said Monday that House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) was working with the heads of three committees to develop a Republican health care plan.
Greene and Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) have been among Republicans who see health care premiums as being a serious risk to their campaigns in the 2026 midterms.
Democrats have held firm against Republicans during the government shutdown in their effort to put a spotlight on health care subsidies that will expire at the end of the year, jumping insurance prices and potentially leaving millions without health coverage.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) earlier this month defended Greene’s pressure on House Republican leaders to return to Washington to address health care premiums, calling her “absolutely right.”
“So, hold on to your hats,” Schumer said at the time. “I think this is the first time I said this, but, on this issue, Representative Greene said it perfectly.”
According to a recent poll sponsored by Undue Medical Debt and led by the nonpartisan research firm PerryUndem, 69 percent of respondents believe health care is too expensive.