CBS’s Margaret Brennan butted heads with Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) on Sunday’s installment of Face the Nation over the proposed tax cuts in what has been dubbed the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act.” The proposed cuts mentioned in the segment were regarding ending Medicaid and S.N.A.P. fraud, as well as cutting back on erroneous spending by government agencies.
Brennan, obviously uninformed and uninterested in being corrected about her misconceptions, completely either ignored Johnson’s explanations or was too married to the Democratic Party talking points on the bill.
The segment began with Brennan interrogating Johnson on what exactly would be cut and why. According to the Democrat-backed KFF (formerly the Kaiser Family Foundation), 200,000 people in his state would lose Medicaid coverage. “How do you defend that to your…