Medicaid Is On The Menu As Republicans Seek Trump Budget Deal

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

88% : Trump wants all this done in one "big, beautiful bill."
58% : Most analysts believe that Medicaid is on the menu.
58% : Medicaid helps one in five low-income Americans, and half of U.S. children, get primary and acute care.
58% : Medicaid also sustain thousands of primary care practices, clinics, hospitals, nursing homes, and healthcare workers nationwide.
57% : Two months ago, the House of Representatives adopted a budget resolution that calls for $2 trillion in cuts to mandatory spending over the next decade, including $880 billion from the part of the budget that funds Medicaid and Medicare.
57% : Medicaid also sponsors six in ten nursing home residents.
55% : Nearly half of its cost is covered by the federal government through a mix of mandatory and discretionary health programs, and tax subsidies for employer-sponsored health insurance.
50% : "Medicaid, you gotta be careful," He told listeners to his podcast, "Because a lot of MAGAs are on Medicaid, I'm telling you.
49% : Fully half of Medicaid's 70 million recipients live in states Trump won in the 2024 election, according to a Reuters analysis.
47% : However, on April 15, Trump signed an executive order to lower drug prices, boost the transparency of fees charged by middlemen, and trim Medicare payments for outpatient services provided by hospitals.
46% : Instead, he pushed his 2017 tax cuts, which largely benefited the wealthy, and approved large increases in federal spending.
45% : The problem is that they cannot accomplish this goal without slashing one or more of the "big three" entitlement programs: Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid.
45% : Medicaid and Medicare are expensive because American healthcare is outrageously expensive.
38% : If Medicaid is slashed, lower-income Americans will lose far more than they gain from their modest tax breaks.
38% : This would give Trump a partial win, avoid hurting his base, and prevent ruinous cuts to Medicaid.
37% : That same day, frustrated citizens at a town hall in Southeastern Iowa urged Senator Chuck Grassley to stand up to Trump.
35% : Senate Budget Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham recently declared, "If you don't reform Medicaid, I don't think you'll get there.
31% : Congressional Republicans need to cut federal spending by hundreds of billions annually to extend Trump's 2017 tax cuts, add a few more, and fund several new White House spending priorities.

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