Josh Hawley draws line on Medicaid cuts, urges GOP to follow Trump’s lead

Senator Josh Holie again drew a line in the sand on the proposed discounts of Medicid’s benefits, warned his colleagues against following President Donald Trump’s progress and leaving the health care program widely used.

The Senate committees, led by Republicans, have spent the past few weeks since the House of Representatives has developed its copy of the “big and beautiful draft law” of the President, and it is their amendments to the huge draft law, but a lot of focus on the work implemented by the Finance Committee in the Senate.

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The committee, which is responsible for health care, taxes and other policy provisions, is expected to issue part of the budget settlement package on Tuesday afternoon. The MEDICAID rulings composed by the Republican Party in the House of Representatives, in particular, were the point of attached to a small group of Republicans in the Senate.

What may seem to be these changes on the side of the Senate of the draft law can jump or disrupt the momentum of the huge legislative package in the upper room.

Holie, R-MO, is among the regiment, and it has long been shown in his position that if the Republicans in the Senate produce a copy of the “big and beautiful draft law” of the president who benefits from his voters, he will not support the package. But his vision of medical aid disorder with financial falcons that are looking for deeper spending discounts.

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

“This is still telling my colleagues,” he said. “Anyone who asks me and who cares about it is, why not only listen to the man who won the elections who said he does not want any discounts in the field of Madin, he does not want to close rural hospitals. He wants to be touched by Medicare at all.”

The legislator’s statements came during a press invitation on Friday, discussing the inclusion of the Radiation compensation law (RECA), which provides compensation to people who have been subjected to nuclear waste, to the “beautiful big law.”

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Holie said that the addition was definitely a desalination of its support, taking into account that the action was “a leading legislative priority for two years so far.” However, medicaid is one of its best issues in the broader reconciliation battle.

The legislator said that he did not face a problem with some changes in marquee on the medical aid that their Republican counterparts in the House of Representatives, including the most striking requirements of work, take off illegal immigrants from entitlements, root waste, fraud and abuse of the program that serves tens of millions of Americans.

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However, he pointed out that about 1.3 million Missouri depends on the Medicaid program and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (Chip), and he claimed that most of them were working.

“These are not people sitting around them, these are people working,” he said. “They are in Medicaid because they cannot afford private health insurance costs, and they do not get it in the job.”

“I just think it is wrong to go to these people and say,” Well, as you know, we know that you are doing your best, and we know that you are working hard, but we will take your arrival to health care. ”