04/22/2025 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 04/22/2025 12:59
Donald Trump's handpicked MAGA minion Austin Scott is making the House GOP's plans clear: cut Medicaid for millions of Americans and roll back the Affordable Care Act's landmark expansion. While Trump drives the economy into a recession, skyrockets costs to record highs, and threatens small businesses, his GOP lackeys are plotting to rip away health care access to pay for another round of tax handouts for their billionaire backers.
WATCH: Trump-endorsed MAGA minion Austin Scott just laid out the GOP's plan for cutting Medicaid.
Austin Scott: "The federal government is paying 90% of the Medicaid expansion. What we've talked about is moving that 90% level of the expansion back towards … 50% to approximately 80% instead … nobody would be kicked off Medicaid as long as governors decided they wanted to continue to fund the program."
REMINDER: Trump and House Republicans worked together to advance their devastating funding agenda to gut Medicaid while making Trump's tax handouts for his billionaire backers permanent.
Libbey Dean, NewsNation: "Budget blueprint PASSES House 216-214"
Trump: "It is IMPERATIVE that Republicans in the House pass the Tax Cut Bill, NOW! Our Country Will Boom!!!"
NBC News: "Senate Republicans released a new budget blueprint Wednesday that would pave the way for … making President Donald Trump's 2017 tax cuts permanent."
KFF: "Congress is currently targeting up to $880 billion or more in federal Medicaid spending reductions. The House passed a budget resolution instructing the House Energy & Commerce Committee (E&C) to reduce the federal deficit by at least $880 billion over 10 years. Although the budget resolution does not mention Medicaid, Medicaid comprises $8.2 trillion out of the $8.6 trillion in mandatory spending that E&C must use to come up with spending reductions (assuming Medicare cuts are off the table). As a result, major cuts to Medicaid are the only way to meet the House's budget resolution required $880 billion (or more) in spending reductions."
Medicaid cuts would rip away health care access across the country, devastating our children, seniors, and rural communities.
ProPublica: "The Trump Administration Cracked Down on Medicaid. Kids Lost Insurance."
West Virginia Watch: "Medicaid cuts could hurt older adults who rely on home care, nursing homes"
New York Times: "Medicaid Cuts May Force Retirees Out of Nursing Homes"
Georgetown University Center for Children and Families: "Cuts to Medicaid Will Shift Costs to Families, Providers and Will Be Especially Harmful to Rural Communities"
Bloomberg: "Rural nursing home closures are a concern for Nate Schema, president and CEO of Good Samaritan, the nation's largest nonprofit nursing home and senior living provider.
"The society operates 105 nursing homes in eight states that serve about 10,000 residents. In more than a dozen of its rural facilities, about 70% of residents are Medicaid beneficiaries, Schema said."
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