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A new report by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office confirms what other outside analysts have already written: the House Republican budget will result in severe cuts to Medicaid, ripping away health care for millions of families and children across the country, all to pay for a tax scam for their billionaire backers. Yet every single vulnerable Republican voted for it.
This is the same Republican budget that has triggered outrage across the country and driven vulnerable Republicans into hiding, cowardly deciding to not hold any in-person town halls.
DCCC Spokesperson Viet Shelton:
“Vulnerable House Republicans can spread all the falsehoods they want, but there is no escaping the fact that their budget will result in massive cuts to Medicaid and hurt millions of families. Another fact: their terrible, unpopular budget will cost House Republicans their Majority.”
Washington Post: GOP must cut Medicaid or Medicare to achieve budget goals, CBO finds
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Republicans in Congress cannot reach their goal of cutting at least $1.5 trillion in spending over the next 10 years for President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” […] unless they cut Medicaid or Medicare benefits, lawmakers’ nonpartisan bookkeeper reported Wednesday.
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More than 60 million Americans rely on each program for medical coverage, retirement security, unemployment due to disability and survivor benefits, and cutting benefits in any of them could be politically toxic.
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But the House GOP’s budget, which passed last week in a hair-line vote, asks the committee responsible for federal health care spending to find at least $880 billion in savings over 10 years. And the Congressional Budget Office said Wednesday that reducing costs that much won’t be possible without cuts to Medicare, Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program.
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[E]liminating fraud and adding new work requirements will likely fall well short of the GOP’s budget goals, according to the programs’ financial reports and nonpartisan projections.
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