🚨⬇️🧵 What’s Going on With Medicaid? A Breakdown of Congress’s Budget Fight
The House just passed a budget resolution that could lead to $880 billion in spending cuts—and Medicaid is on the chopping block. Here’s what you need to know:
The House just passed a budget resolution that could lead to $880 billion in spending cuts—and Medicaid is on the chopping block. Here’s what you need to know:
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The resolution kicks off a process to extend the 2017 tax cuts while slashing up to $2 trillion in federal spending over 10 years.
Medicaid provides health coverage to 83 million low-income and disabled Americans, including:
-10M+ people with disabilities
-8M seniors & disabled individuals relying on home-based care
-14M adults with mental health & substance use disorders
-Millions of schoolchildren
Congress is considering options like:
- Work requirements for some adults ($100B saved)
- Stricter eligibility checks ($160B saved)
- Reducing federal funding for Medicaid expansion (~$560B saved)
The Senate must still approve the budget, and lawmakers will need to pass separate legislation to implement any Medicaid cuts. But the math is clear: without deep health care cuts, the entire budget deal could collapse.
They DO NOT CARE what happens to us.