Several House Republicans walked away from a White House briefing Wednesday morning on Capitol Hill with the impression that the administration knows its cuts to Medicaid and other social safety net programs aren’t playing well in battleground states.
“The main place Republicans were underwater when messaging the bill was the Medicaid cuts,” one Republican lawmaker told NOTUS, leaving the meeting with the White House’s press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, and James Blair, a White House’s deputy chief of staff.
Blair and Leavitt came to the Hill to help House Republicans figure out how to frame President Donald Trump’s sweeping budget law. Republicans’ current push is to recast what Trump dubbed his “one big, beautiful bill” into the “working families’ tax cut.”