Hawley: Medicaid Cuts Present “Nightmare Scenario”

Axios reports:

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) is warning that the Senate’s version of “one, big beautiful bill” can’t pass the House with the Medicaid changes it unveiled this week — urging leadership to change it fast and not to let the fight drag on.

“It seems to me that now we’re in a place where this provision is threatening the entire bill, and we just don’t have time for that,” Hawley told Axios in a phone interview.

“I just think the idea of having now to go to a conference committee with the House because they say, well, we can’t pass this… I mean, good lord, that’s just a nightmare scenario,” Hawley said. Reports have been surfacing that House leaders and Republican moderates do not think they can pass the Senate bill as-is.

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