Republicans compromise on Medicaid reform.

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : The House Ways and Means Committee, the GOP's powerful tax-writing panel, earlier announced it will mark up its portion of the legislative package Tuesday. Republicans on the panel released a bare-bones version of their tax bill, but that initial release did not include a series of contentious issues the committee is still hammering out, including the state and local tax deduction known as SALT.
50% : Since Medicaid is a joint federal-state program, many conservatives wanted to cut federal costs by requiring states to pay more.
38% : Guthrie, in his op-ed, also signaled that Republicans would repeal at least some parts of former President Joe Biden's signature climate policy bill -- though it's not yet clear whether GOP moderates will support this move, as some had lobbied publicly and privately to keep certain tax credits.
37% : The GOP panel's plan does make one proposed change to FMAP, however: The bill would penalize states that provide a state health care program, such as Medicaid, to "illegal immigrants" by cutting their federal contribution to Medicaid by 10% -- an apparent targeting of some blue states like California.
30% : "Without Republican solutions, Washington risks a complete collapse of Medicaid.

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