NEW: “Republicans Are Flat-Out Lying About Their Medicaid Cuts” [Rolling Stone]

Just this morning, we told you House Republicans spent the weekend lying about their Big, Ugly Bill and the disastrous cuts the GOP Tax Scam would make to Medicaid and food access for millions of Americans.

Since then, Rolling Stone reported on these phony lies being fabricated by the so-called moderate House Republicans back home in their districts.

“Republicans are trying their hardest to sell voters on the prospect of deep cuts to Medicaid and other social safety net programs in order to fund tax breaks for the ultra-wealthy,” Rolling Stone writes. “The process has involved plenty of bold-faced lying to constituents.”

DCCC Spokesperson Justin Chermol:
“As stated this morning, the Republican spin on their Big, Ugly Bill is total bullshit.”

See more of the bold-faced lies below. 

Rolling Stone: Republicans Are Flat-Out Lying About Their Medicaid Cuts
By Nikki McCann Ramirez | June 2, 2025

• Republicans’ current reconciliation bill will kick an estimated 15 million Americans off of their health care coverage by 2034. The expected coverage rollback will primarily be fueled by increased requirements for Medicaid recipients, as well as changes made to Affordable Care Act marketplace policies and the failure of the bill to renew tax benefits for ACA plan purchasers.

• Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) accused Democrats of using “fear tactics- not the truth- when they speak to the American public.” 

• Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.)  told the New York Post last month that the bill “worked to protect critical services like Medicaid,” while eliminating those who were “gaming the system.” 

• In a separate tweet, Lawler wrote that the reconciliation package “strengthens Medicaid for seniors, single parents, and the I/DD community by eliminating waste, fraud, and abuse,” by eliminating coverage for “illegal immigrants” (who were already ineligible for most Medicaid programs), eliminating “scam artists” from the program, and instituting “work requirements for able-bodied adults without dependents.” 

• What Republicans like Lawler avoid acknowledging is that the vast majority of able-bodied adults on Medicaid already do work. Over 60 percent of recipients work either full or part time, where as the remainder largely do not work because they are disabled, ill, a primary caregiver, or a student. 

• Several other Republicans, including Reps. Zach Nunn (R-Iowa), Tom Kean Jr. (R-N.J.), Ryan Mackenzie (R-Pa.), and Rob Wittman (R-Va.) all used some version of the phrase “protecting Medicaid” in public statements defending the legislation. 

• Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) wrote on X that Republicans had “protected Medicaid for those who need it,” adding that “work requirements for able bodied adults w/out children helps get 4.8 million back into work force & on employer provided insurance.”

• It’s a fancy way of saying that 4.8 million people would be forced out of the program, according to estimates from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. 

• But even as House Republicans make their pitch to increasingly angry voters, they’re being undermined by some of their colleagues in the Senate. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) has called the legislation’s attacks against Medicaid “politically suicidal,” and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) told CBS News on Sunday that the cuts are “a bad strategy” to deal with GOP concerns about the national debt.

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