Tillis Warns: Medicaid Cuts Could Cost GOP Control

The Hill reports:

Sen. Thom Tillis (N.C.), one of the most vulnerable Senate Republican incumbents facing re-election in 2026, warned Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) bluntly in a private meeting Tuesday that deep cuts to Medicaid could cost Republicans control of the House and Senate.

Tillis, who has kept relatively quiet about the hundreds of billions of dollars in Medicaid cuts proposed by the Senate Finance Committee, blasted his leadership’s plan to forge ahead during a Republican luncheon on Capitol Hill.

“Thom Tillis got up and he had a chart on what the Senate’s provider tax structure will cost different states, including his. His will lose almost $40 billion. He walked through that and said ‘this will be devastating to my state,’” said a person familiar with Tillis’s blunt exchange with Thune behind closed doors.

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