In perhaps the most overt lie ever told, House Speaker Mike Johnson said on Monday that it's Republicans who are working to fix health care in the United States.

"Let me look right into the camera and tell you very clearly: Republicans are the ones concerned about health care. Republicans are the party working around the clock every day to fix health care. This is not talking points for us: we've done it," Johnson told reporters at the Capitol on Monday.

Where do we even begin with this absolute whopper that anyone with half a brain and a rudimentary understanding of politics over the last decade and a half of politics knows is a lie.

First, to say Republicans are “working around the clock” to fix health care is false, as the House is in its third week of recess as Johnson refuses to ne

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