House Speaker Mike Johnson refused Tuesday to promise not to cut Medicaid.  At a press conference, Johnson was asked by a reporter if “unequivocally … further down the line, there won’t be any cuts to Medicaid programs.”  Johnson’s response wasn’t encouraging.  “Medicaid is hugely problematic because it has a lot of fraud, waste, and abuse. Everybody knows that, we all know it intuitively. No one in here would disagree,” Johnson said , claiming that experts say that the Medicaid program has $50