It's time for the last word with my friend, Catherine Rampel, in for Lawrence.

Hey, Catherine, this isn't normally how I get to hang out with you.

I know. Usually we're a little closer together.

A little closer.

It's nice to see you through the screen, and I look forward to hanging out with you tomorrow.

Same. Have a great show.

Thanks.

So what do you do when your budget bill is cruel and unpopular?

If you're a Republican politician, you might just lie about it.

You lie about what your bill does to one of the most popular and important social safety net programs in the United States.

Here's Republican House Speaker, Mike Mike Johnson lying about what is in

that narrowly passed House budget bill, a bill that would cut nearly $800 billion from Medicaid.

Medicaid has never been on the shopping block. We are not cutting Medicaid in this package.

Those 4.8 million people will not lose their Medicaid unless they choose to do so. So that last statistic, Speaker Johnson cites, 4.8 million, that's the number of people that the Congressional Budget Office estimates

would, in fact, lose their Medicaid coverage if the bill's work requirements are

implemented. The nonpartisan CBO also estimates that 11 million Americans will lose their health

coverage as a direct result of this bill when all of its measures are included. The CBO estimates,

quote, resources would decrease for households toward the bottom of the income distribution, whereas resources would increase for households in the bottom of the income distribution,

whereas resources would increase for households in the middle and top of the income distribution.

Those in the bottom tenth of households by income would become about 4% poorer,

and the typical household at the rich end of the income spectrum would become about 2.3% richer. So to boil that down,

the rich get richer, the poor get poor, all as a result of this GOP budget bill. So how do Republicans

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