Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Monday said House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) is working with the chairs of three House committees to compile a Republican health care plan as the government shutdown nears the one-month mark and Democrats demand action on expiring ObamaCare subsidies.

“Republicans have been working on a fix for health care, we've been doing this for years,” Johnson said in a press conference on Monday when asked about the coming “health care cliff.”

He held up a copy of a policy framework developed when he was chair of the Republican Study Committee from 2019-2020, asserting that “these ideas have been on paper for a long time.”

The heads of those House committees of jurisdiction involved in the health care plans would be Ways and Means Chair Jason Smith (R-Mo.

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