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Sen. Tillis: "We owe it to the states to do the work to understand how these proposals affect them … How hard is it to sit down and ask the Medicaid office?"

"If there's no negative impact, what's wrong with daylight? What's wrong with actually understanding what this bill does."
Republican Sen. Thom Tillis on the Senate floor on the budget bill:

"What do I tell 663,000 people [in North Carolina] in two years or three years when President Trump breaks his promise by pushing them off of Medicaid because the funding is not there anymore, guys?"
June 30, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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So yes, as currently written the House GOP budget will require half a trillion dollars in cuts to Medicare. That’s T as in trillion and “care” as in Medicare on top of the cuts to Medicaid and Obamacare. So how did this happen? As near as I can tell House Republicans and the …
May 22, 2025 at 12:52 AM