House Republicans unveil Medicaid cuts

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: ABC News/AP

May 12, 2025, 12:36 AM


WASHINGTON -- House Republicans unveiled the cost-saving centerpiece of President Donald Trump's “ big, beautiful bill ” late Sunday, at least $880 billion in cuts largely to Medicaid to help cover the cost of $4.5 trillion in tax breaks.

Tallying hundreds of pages, the legislation is touching off the biggest political fight over health care since Republicans tried to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, during Trump's first term in 2017 — which ended in failure.

While Republicans insist they are simply rooting out “waste, fraud and abuse” to generate savings with new work and eligibility requirements, Democrats warn that millions of Americans will lose coverage. A preliminary estimate from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said the proposals would reduce the number of people with health care by 8.6 million over the decade.

“Savings like these allow us to use this bill to renew the Trump tax cuts and keep Republicans’ promise to hardworking middle-class families,” said Rep. Brett Guthrie of Kentucky, the GOP chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee, which handles health care spending. But Democrats said the cuts are “shameful” and essentially amount to another attempt to repeal Obamacare.

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/house-republicans-unveil-medicaid-cuts-democrats-warn-leave-121701684

[Karasu]

1. As if the wealthiest administration in history gives a single flying fuck about "hardworking middle-class families."

How do modern conservatives continue to spew this tired shit with a straight face?

[underpants]

2. " hardworking middle-class families." use Medicaid too

We don’t hear about them much anymore but there are lots of working poor.

We know a couple with a special needs kid who gets Medicaid assistant. One is a lawyer and one is a sound technician. The work they’ve done for this kid is astounding…but they needed help.

[gab13by13]

4. I know a similar person, I bet everyone does.

They would make great guests at Democratic town halls that focus on killing tax cuts for billionaires.

Where is the concerted action to stop the Big Beautiful Bill? Make Congressional Magats own it. Hold town halls in red districts that have high percentages of people on Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security.

[underpants]

9. 40% of Moses Mike's district (LA-4) is on Medicaid.

From the SEIU
🚨Nearly 40% of Speaker Mike Johnson’s district relies on Medicaid. �Now he’s leading the charge to gut it—putting rural hospitals at risk & ripping care away from working families who earn too little to afford it any other way. Is this what backing working people looks like, sir?



NBC

In Johnson’s rural Louisiana district, nearly 25% of adults under age 65 rely on Medicaid, according to an NBC News analysis, while nearly 20% of households receive food stamps. Politically, it’s a deep-red district that Johnson won with 85% of the vote in November. Louisiana was one of the states that expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, and the program now covers 72 million people across the country.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/rural-louisiana-speaker-mike-johnson-potential-medicaid-cuts-rcna196007

[SomedayKindaLove]

18. Apparently it doesn't matter what you do to others

As long as you go to church or dangle a cross from your neck you can still go to bed at night and be a good Christian

[ShazzieB]

30. Not BE a good Christian.

You can do anything you want to vulnerable people and still tell yourself you're a good Christian.

You can, tell yourself anything. That doesn't necessarily mean it's true,

[Bengus81]

6. These massive cuts will close nursing homes and small hospitals in rual America

It isn't IF..it's WHEN.

Other facts that Trump and his Republicans lackeys care nothing about:

Approximately 1.75 million veterans, or about 1 in 10, rely on Medicaid for their health care. A significant portion, around 40%, rely solely on Medicaid for all their health care needs. For the remaining 60%, Medicaid supplements other coverage like VA, private insurance, or Medicare.

[underpants]

10. Make room for Grandma. I don't think most realize the effect of just these 100+ days

You are absolutely right. See most post above. 40% of Speaker Johnson’s district is on Medicaid including 1/4 of the people under 65.

Rural hospitals have been closing for a while but this would be the dagger as you said. Move over food deserts- here comes medical deserts.

Grandma is going to need a bath too. Basically households are going to become 24/7 caregivers even if it’s spread out over shifts.

[AllaN01Bear]

16. key word , needed help

[Miles Archer]

27. A couple of mouse clicks reveal who gets the payoffs from the "cuts."

Hard to believe Trump is still selling cuts that overwhelmingly go to the top 1% as something for middle class families, but that's Trump. He'll never back down from it, even though the info is available to anyone who wants it.

[gab13by13]

3. It's really going to cost 4.7 - 7 trillion.

Waiting for Democrats to make the debate why billionaires don't need a 7 trillion dollar tax cut paid for by the poor and working class. Bernie and AOC are trying.

A single mom friend of mine who works every damn day but doesn't make enough money to afford Obamacare would make a nice guest at a Democratic town hall focused on the damage the 7 trillion dollar tax cut will do to people.

Stop wasting time on an insane impeachment strategy and devote efforts to doing town halls like the MSNBC town hall about fired federal workers. Make the town halls about specific topics and the MSM will cover it.

Time Matters.

DNC I offer my ideas, PM me. The strategy to let Krasnov burn it all down and then we will win the elections is a piss poor strategy. Letting him burn our democracy down is a doom and gloom strategy.

[underpants]

11. ✅ Dems should hold their own townhalls with or without the incumbent Repub

If they show up fine. If they don’t it would be a great way for prospective challengers to make their name known. The media will be there. They love them some public anger.

[murielm99]

12. This is happening right now.

[underpants]

13. Good.

[Bengus81]

5. But...$100M and destroyed streets in DC for the Fuhrer's birthday parade? NO PROBLEM!!

FUCK YOU and your Republican toadies who are allowing all of this BS.

[OldBaldy1701E]

7. And, the purge continues. (n/t)

[LiberalArkie]

8. Is this another GOP ploy to force the Democrats to raise the debt ceiling 4 trillion so Trump can give his

tax breaks? "You raise the debt ceiling and we won't cut Medicaid" And then they do it any way?

[William Seger]

14. How many of those 8.7 million will die from preventable diseases?

We know from experience that uninsured people are about 40% more likely to die from preventable or treatable diseases. Will any of these GOP "Christians" think about that when they vote for it? Not for more than a couple of seconds, because they're all afraid of King Dunning-Kruger's cult.

[Bayard]

20. That's just icing on the cake for them

Dems need to be running ads, not just doing town halls. Tell the people what rethuglicans are really up to.

[littlemissmartypants]

15. Why bother repealing/replacing ACA...

When you can just slash everything down to the bone, subsequently close hospitals, bankrupt clinics and destroy healthcare everywhere?

What good will insurance be when there are no billing offices to process the invoices because the providers have all had to take jobs with Door Dash?

❤️ RESIST!! ✊️

[AllaN01Bear]

17. here we goeth again, attacing the social programs.

hey congresws. not all disabilities are visible and in the op0en, ie using scooter or waker or other equipments to survie. i am one who has hidden dissibilites . wer are ignored too often.

[JHB]

19. The thing to remember is that in the mind of big-C Conservatives, Medicaid itself is "waste, fraud and abuse".

So are Medicare and Social Security. That's all "big government" stuff they want to do away with.

To their mind, government should not be involved with those things. They want "small government", a phrase they've sold to he "small-c" conservatives while eliding what it actually entails.

[BumRushDaShow]

21. I often post the personification of what you wrote that was described by Grover Norquist back in 2012

and foretold what happened in 2017 and again in 2024 -

[JHB]

22. Also the personification of my observation "there has always been a part of the Conservative Movement...

...that had a sneaking admiration for the Bolsheviks. Not for the ideology, of course, but for the ability of a small faction to play other factions against each other, manipulate useful idiots for cover and misdirection, and when the time comes to be absolutely ruthless in taking total control."

I don't care how much he's denied it after the story started circulating, I fully believe he had a bust of Lenin for precisely the above reason.

[hildegaard28]

23. Medicaid

Creates more jobs than any billionaire ever could. Cutting Medicaid will cut jobs from communities, not to mention kill people. But that might be the bright side for the party of sociopaths we call Republicans. More dead poor people.

[flamingdem]

24. My brain read the title as Medieval Cuts

Kind of..

[JT45242]

25. Correction...they tried to repeal...never replace ACA

If they repeal it, there will be nothing for the millions who used it for subsidized plans.

The rest of us who have ACA compliant work insurance will lose free preventative care and a ton of other benefits. But the insurance companies will make a lot more money.

[Bengus81]

28. I'll guarantee the Health Insurance cabal does NOT want the ACA killed

They have more customers than ever and they are being subsidized. They kill off the ACA their insurance would be what $1500-$2000 per month for a family of four??

Millions would be back to having zero health insurance.

[JT45242]

29. Brother worked for hmo companies until he retired 2 years ago, they wanted to kill ACA

Maybe some companies want it.but mist want it gone and want to be UNREGULATED not deregulated.

He tried to convince me for years that ACA and single payer were bad for everyone. He drank the company Kool aid

[Picaro]

26. Devastating cuts for the poorest and most vulnerable

While continuing tax cuts that were utterly unnecessary at the time and massively added to the deficit.

Republicans are so concerned about the deficit until they have the Congress and the Presidency.

This has been going on for a long time now.