House Republicans face a challenging task of cutting $1.5 trillion from the budget, primarily targeting Medicaid to meet savings goals under President Trump's tax cuts. Leadership insists Medicaid, which supports over 70 million vulnerable individuals, will not be severely impacted. However, the Congressional Budget Office indicated that without significant Medicaid cuts, achieving the required savings would be impossible. While Republicans aim to protect beneficiary rights, they may consider overhauling the program as an alternative to cutting benefits directly.
We're going to protect the benefits that everyone is legally entitled to, the beneficiaries who have a legal right to that, it will be preserved. Those are essential safety net programs that Republicans support.
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office recently calculated that achieving those savings would not be possible without cuts to Medicaid.
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