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Johnson pointed out that the 2023 law, often called the “one big beautiful bill,” explicitly prevents illegal immigrants from accessing taxpayer-funded benefits, including healthcare, and that the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) confirmed that enacting this law would lower healthcare costs by removing ineligible recipients from Medicaid. He asserted that Democrats are intent on repealing these provisions, which they view as a threat to their agenda. The House speaker clarified that the current CR is simply a temporary extension of previous appropriations, not an increase in actual spending, meant solely to allow legislative time for the appropriators to negotiate.