Derek Merrin: The One Big Beautiful Bill Made “Unprecedented” Cuts To The Social Safety Net, Slashing Ohio Medicaid Funds By $33 Billion Over The Coming Decade And Throwing 340,000 Ohioans Off Their Health Insurance

August 2025: Ohio Capital Journal: The One Big Beautiful Bill Made “Unprecedented Cuts To The Social Safety Net.” “The survey by Scioto Analysis was released on Monday. It comes after the July 4 signing of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. The law gives $1 trillion in tax cuts to the richest 1%. It also balloons the deficit by $3.4 trillion, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. In addition, it makes unprecedented cuts to the social safety net. It slashes nearly $1 trillion in Medicaid spending over 10 years. Ohio will lose about $37 billion over that period, according to estimates by KFF. The Trump bill will also slash another $230 billion in federal food assistance over the same period.” [Ohio Capital Journal, 8/7/25]

October 2025: Signal Cleveland Headline: “Under Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill, Ohio To Lose $33 Billion For Medicaid; 340,000 To Lose Insurance, Analysts Say.” [Signal Cleveland, 10/16/25]

• October 2025: The One Big Beautiful Bill Was Projected To Slash $33 Billion In Federal Funds Earmarked For Ohio’s Medicaid Program In The Coming Decade. “The Trump administration’s signature health care package is projected to slash $33 billion over the coming decade in federal funds otherwise earmarked for Ohio’s Medicaid program, according to new estimates. That’s a 13% cut against the current spending baseline for Medicaid, the publicly funded health insurance program for the poor and disabled. The new law – formally known as H.R. 1 and commonly referred to as the ‘One Big Beautiful Bill Act’ – kicks in at full force in 2027.” [Signal Cleveland, 10/16/25]
• October 2025: KFF: The One Big Beautiful Bill Was Expected To Purge 340,000 Ohioans From Medicaid. “The new law – formally known as H.R. 1 and commonly referred to as the ‘One Big Beautiful Bill Act’ – kicks in at full force in 2027. This sweeping spending bill is expected to purge 340,000 Ohioans from Medicaid, which covers more than 3 million residents in the state. That’s according to Jennifer Tolbert, director of state health policy and data for KFF, a health policy news outlet, who spoke at a panel event last Thursday hosted by the Health Policy Institute of Ohio. ‘Of those, 290,000 will lose coverage because of the Medicaid changes,’ Tolbert said.” [Signal Cleveland, 10/16/25]