Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., is positioning himself as his party’s primary defender of Medicaid after the House passed President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful” budget bill last week containing nearly $800 billion in cuts to the program.
Missouri’s senior senator has long warned the GOP against Medicaid cuts and has clearly indicated that he will not support legislation that slashes healthcare for the country’s working poor.
In a New York Times opinion piece earlier this month, Hawley argued that cutting Medicaid benefits “is both morally wrong and politically suicidal.”
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