Millions To Lose Medicaid Under Just-Passed GOP Bill

Playbook reports:

Republicans will soon be able to laud tangible victories as the midterm elections loom closer: tax cuts for working families, no tax on tips, more money for national defense and a massive, potentially game-changing cash injection for Trump’s deportation and border-control project.

But but but: The Dems spy opportunities here, too, chiefly over the cuts to Medicaid, which have been brought forward several years under eleventh-hour changes demanded by GOP fiscal hawks.

Estimates show millions of people are going to start losing their cover from the end of 2026 — after the midterms are safely out of the way, but still front of mind for plenty of voters come 2028. Trump, term-limited as he is, won’t care much about that … VP JD Vance must be thrilled.

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The GOP Medicaid cuts will leave 8.6 million more Americans uninsured by 2034.

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