Hawley Urges Republicans Not to Cut Medicaid as House Debates Reductions

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : "If Republicans want to be a working-class party -- if we want to be a majority party -- we must ignore calls to cut Medicaid and start delivering on America's promise for America's working people," Mr. Hawley wrote.
42% : " His plea comes a day after House Republicans released a plan that would cut an estimated $715 billion from Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act and could leave 8.6 million people uninsured, although the proposal does not include the more drastic cuts that fiscal hard-liners were demanding.
28% : Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri on Monday urged his Republican colleagues to reject deep cuts to Medicaid as part of legislation to implement President Trump's ambitious domestic agenda, including a plan to cut more than $4 trillion in taxes.

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