'It's wrong': Hawley warns Senate GOP not to boot Americans from Medicaid in Trump megabill

Sen. Josh Hawley again drew a enactment successful the soil connected projected cuts to Medicaid benefits, and warned his colleagues to travel President Donald Trump’s pb and permission the wide utilized healthcare programme mostly intact.

Republican-led Senate committees person spent the past fewer weeks since the House GOP precocious its mentation of the president’s "big, beauteous bill," preparing their ain tweaks to the colossal bill, but overmuch of the absorption has been connected the enactment being carried retired by the Senate Finance Committee.

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Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

The panel, which is liable for wellness care, taxation and different argumentation provisions, is expected to merchandise its chunk of the fund reconciliation bundle Tuesday afternoon. House GOP-authored Medicaid provisions, successful particular, person been a sticking constituent for a tiny radical of Senate Republicans.

What those changes connected the Senate broadside of the measure mightiness look similar could leap commencement oregon stall the momentum of the monolithic legislative bundle successful the precocious chamber.

Hawley, R-Mo, is among that cohort and has agelong been outspoken successful his presumption that if Senate Republicans nutrient a mentation of the president’s "big, beauteous bill" that strips benefits from his constituents, helium won’t enactment the package. But his imaginativeness for Medicaid clashes with fiscal hawks who are successful hunt of deeper spending cuts.

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President Donald Trump arrives connected Air Force One astatine Hagerstown Regional Airport, successful Hagerstown, Md., connected his mode to Camp David, Md., Sunday, Jun. 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

One of his main arguments is to perceive to what Trump wants to do.

"This is what I proceed to archer my colleagues," helium said. "Anybody who asks maine and who's funny is that, wherefore don't we conscionable perceive to the feline who won the predetermination who said that helium doesn't privation immoderate Medicaid payment cuts, helium doesn't privation agrarian hospitals to close. He wants Medicare not to beryllium touched astatine all."

The lawmaker’s remarks came during a property telephone connected Friday discussing the inclusion of his Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA), which provides compensation to radical who person been exposed to atomic waste, into the "big, beauteous bill."

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Trump's measure was sent to the Senate aft the House passed it. (AP; Getty; Fox News Digital)

Hawley said the summation was surely a sweetener for his support, considering that the measurement has been his "leading legislative precedence for 2 years now." Still, Medicaid is 1 of his apical issues successful the broader reconciliation fight.

The lawmaker said that helium did not person a occupation with immoderate of the marquee changes to Medicaid that his House Republican counterparts wanted, including stricter enactment requirements, booting illegal immigrants from payment rolls and rooting retired waste, fraud and maltreatment successful the programme that serves tens of millions of Americans.

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However, helium noted that astir 1.3 cardinal Missourians trust connected Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and contended that astir were working.

"These are not radical who are sitting around, these are radical who are working," helium said. "They’re connected Medicaid due to the fact that they cannot spend backstage wellness insurance, and they don't get it connected the job."

"And I conscionable deliberation it's incorrect to spell to those radical and say, ‘Well, you know, we cognize you're doing the best, we cognize that you're moving hard, but we're going to instrumentality distant your healthcare access,’" helium continued.