GOP senator defends Medicaid cuts
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The Garner, North Carolina, resident works for a local home goods store up to 20 hours a week, typically. But she also suffers from degenerative disc disease in her spine and relies on Medicaid to cover her doctor’s visits, physical therapy and medication that helps her manage the pain so she can get out of bed in the morning.
Senate Republicans say they intend to change the House-passed bill, and some pointed to changes to Medicaid as a possible red line.
Republican Sen. Joni Ernst faced a number of agitated constituents at a town hall on Friday who expressed concerns that the Republicans' cuts to Medicaid under their major legislative effort to advance President Donald Trump's agenda would cause people to die.
The liberal advocacy group Protect Our Care is spending $10 million on attack ads against 11 Republican lawmakers in battleground districts.
David Sacks, the president’s AI and crypto czar, admits Republicans are preparing to gut Medicaid as Trump and Mike Johnson pretend they aren’t.
Trump warned the right flank of House Republicans not to touch Medicaid any further as tried to rally Republicans behind his "big, beautiful bill."
Taking away healthcare coverage isn’t just “morally wrong and politically suicidal,” in Senator Josh Hawley’s apt phrase. It’s also putting pressure on rural members of Congress.
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