Republicans Don’t Sound Any Closer to Agreeing On How to Cut Medicaid

“The ultimate question that needs to be asked with each of these individual proposals is, are we throwing people off of the program who intended to be the beneficiaries of it?” one blue-state Republican said.

Mike Johnson

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House Republicans aren’t any closer to reconciling the $880 billion dollar question mark that sits at the center of their reconciliation package.

Negotiations over the future of Medicaid are threatening to delay the reconciliation process even further as the party remains divided over the health insurance program that covers more than 72 million Americans.

The Energy and Commerce Committee, tasked with finding $880 billion in cuts, was given another directive Tuesday night by President Donald Trump, when he said Republicans would not cut benefits for “those great people that are in need.”