Dems screams on the gop “ elimination of Medicaid ” while ignoring the annoying facts

The Democrats of Congress have burned the GOP legislators for working to “devastate Medicaid” in “One Big Bill Bill” by President Donald Trump, ignoring the tax projections which show that federal expenses of Medicaid will continue to increase during the next decade anyway.

Home transition version Among the tax reduction and the President’s tax expenditure bill would reduce Federal Medicaid expenses by around $ 700 billion over a period of ten years, according to preliminary projections of the Congressional Budget Office. Although democratic legislators have rocket The Medicaid reforms of the Republicans as a “attack on health care”, say that the proposed economies do not reduce Medicaid, but simply slow down the growth of future spending. (Related: “Next”: Schumer dodges a simple question about Medicaid for illegal immigrants)

“We all heard how this bill would deviate from Medicaid,” said the Senate Democrat chief Chuck Schumer on Wednesday during a speech on the Senate. “It is the greatest reduction in history … It shows the insensitivity of republican senators with regard to health care. They don’t seem to care. They seem to say: “difficult luck”. “

Experts and analysis of the Congress scores say that the program’s federal expenses should not decrease during the next decade, but only slow down compared to the previously projected levels.

The Chamber’s Budget Committee noted that Federal Medicaid expenses will still increase by 30% by 2034 taking into account the $ 698 billion of $ 698 billion in medical in the initial La Chambre bill.

“There is no real real; it is simply a question of identifying savings opportunities, so it does not develop as quickly or as much as it would do in the absence of reforms,” ​​said Hayden Dublois, Data and Analytics Director of the Foundation for Government Accountability, said a group of reflection on the public policy of the grip, the Daily Caller News Foundation.

In particular, the government passes a narcotic 51% More on Medicaid today than in 2019.

Dublois also refuted certain Democrats accusations that the reforms of MEDICAID DU GOP are intended for the poor.

“The savings are concentrated in areas that protect the most vulnerable, such as focusing on illegal foreigners receiving Medicaid, rampant waste, fraud and abuse in the valid program and adults that can work,” said Dublois.

Schumer dodged a question of knowing if he thinks that illegal migrants should receive the advantages of Medicaid thanks to programs funded by the State when they are pressed by the DCNF on Wednesday afternoon.

Medicaid expenditure should also go beyond the 2019 CBO projection, even after taking into account medical inflation and demographic growth Jeremy Nighohossian, main scholarship holder and Enterprise Institute competitiveness.

Washington, DC – May 22: President of the representative of the Chamber Energy and Trade Committee, Brett Guthrie, (R -KY), is expressed in the media during a press conference after the Chamber has narrowly adopted a bill transmitting the order of President Donald Trump to the American Capitol on May 22, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images)

The republican representative Brett Guthrie from Kentucky, who chairs the Chamber Committee responsible for Medicaid reforms, recently declared That although the economy measures of the bill are intended to slow the growth of the program, the expenses of Medicaid had further increased by more than 1 billion of dollars above inflation by 2034.

“Only Washington Democrats would characterize the increase in funding as a cup,” said Guthrie.

It remains to be seen if all the Medicaid reforms offered in the House will survive the Senate. Republican senator Josh Hawley from Missouri and moderate GOP senators have suggested They will do it oppose A home provision establishing a freezing on provider taxes, invoking their potential impact on rural hospitals.

However, the imposition of Work requirements For some valid -free adults, adults without children have broad support among the Republicans of Congress who defended reforms as preserving the advantages of the law program for those who need it.

“We don’t cut Medicaid,” said President Mike Johnson said Kristen Welker from NBC on Sunday. “What we do is strengthen the program. We reduce fraud, waste and abuses that are rampant in Medicaid to ensure … that it is available for the most vulnerable. ”

“What we are doing here is an important and frankly heroic thing to preserve the program so that it does not become insolvent,” added Johnson.

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