House Speaker Mike Johnson pulled his caucus through a tight vote Tuesday as he fights to deliver on several of Donald Trump's legislative priorities in one large bill.
As a reward, his party will now undergo a public battle over where to come up with hundreds of billions of dollars in spending cuts — much of which the GOP has claimed will come from Medicaid.
With the passage of the House GOP's budget framework on Tuesday, Republicans are tripping over themselves to assure voters that benefit cuts to a program that provides health care to 1 in 5 Americans are not on the horizion.
"The president said over and over and over, 'We're not going to touch Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid,'" said Johnson on CNN.
So where will Republicans find nearly $900bn in cuts they've ordered the committee overseeing Medicaid to identify?
Democrats say the scale of the cuts means the GOP can't reach their total without touching Medicaid.
The GOP is adamant it can make up the sum via the institution of work requirements for some recipients — as well as through DOGE's less-than-streamlined pursuit of "waste, fraud and abuse".
"There's nowhere else to get the money, that's their whole budget," Sen. Kristen Gillibrand told The Independent today. "Yeah, so they're lying to the American people when they say they're not."
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