{"id":9631,"date":"2025-03-01T09:19:49","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T09:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/democrats-see-political-opening-in-g-o-p-budget-as-republicans-eye-medicaid-cuts\/"},"modified":"2025-03-01T09:19:49","modified_gmt":"2025-03-01T09:19:49","slug":"democrats-see-political-opening-in-g-o-p-budget-as-republicans-eye-medicaid-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/democrats-see-political-opening-in-g-o-p-budget-as-republicans-eye-medicaid-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats See Political Opening in G.O.P. Budget as Republicans Eye Medicaid Cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In 2018, Democrats won back the House, flipping 41 seats including in conservative-leaning places like the suburbs of Utah and Oklahoma by focusing narrowly on a single issue: Republican efforts to overturn a popular health care program, the Affordable Care Act.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Now, as Republicans push a budget resolution through Congress that will almost certainly require some kind of cuts to Medicaid to finance a huge tax reduction, Democrats see an opening to use the same strategy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI don\u2019t know why Republicans are doubling down on the same playbook,\u201d said Senator Ben Ray Luj\u00e1n of New Mexico, who in 2018 served as the chairman of House Democrats\u2019 campaign arm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe town halls, people coming forward, showing up in communities all across America, filling the phone lines here in Washington, D.C.,\u201d Mr. Luj\u00e1n continued, \u201cI think you can draw a direct comparison to the outcome of what happened in 2018.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In the early weeks of President Trump\u2019s second term, Democrats labored to pick their political targets amid a near-daily barrage of executive orders and moves by Elon Musk\u2019s Department of Government Efficiency to defund and dismantle federal programs and fire government employees. But in the prospect of cuts to Medicaid, which covers more than 70 million Americans, they see a clarifying issue that they hope can help them capture the same kind of energy that catapulted them back to power in 2018.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe American people were upset in 2005 when Republicans tried to privatize Social Security. The American people were upset in 2017 when Republicans tried to repeal the Affordable Care Act,\u201d Representative Hakeem Jeffries of New York, the Democratic leader, said in an interview, citing two campaign cycles in which his party wrested back control of the House under a Republican president. \u201cThe American people are very upset right now, including in the communities I represent, about the Republican effort to take away their health care and enact the largest cut to Medicaid in our country\u2019s history.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He said Democrats would continue to hammer away at the \u201cclear contrast\u201d that they emphasized in the past to maximum political advantage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">They are already putting money behind the message. House Democrats\u2019 political action committee announced on Friday that they had bought advertising time in over 20 districts across the country savaging Republicans for opening the door to $880 billion in Medicaid cuts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThey claimed they\u2019d lower costs,\u201d the narrator says. \u201cInstead, Trump and Speaker Johnson are set to kick millions off of health insurance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In 2017, protesters <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2017\/02\/republicans-obamacare-repeal-town-halls-234651\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">swarmed Republican town halls<\/a> across the country and urged their lawmakers not to vote to replace the Affordable Care Act.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWhen it comes to health care, all politics is personal,\u201d Representative Nancy Pelosi of California, the Democratic leader, said in 2018 the day after her party reclaimed the House. \u201cWe made our own environment. While the G.O.P. tried relentlessly to distract and divide, our candidates kept their focus on that subject.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Similar scenes have played out in recent days as lawmakers have been pressed by their constituents on the scope of Mr. Trump\u2019s budget cuts. In both cases, Republicans have dismissed the protests as being coordinated by liberal activist groups and argued that the protests are not representative of average voter sentiment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Still, Republicans who have witnessed some of the backlash firsthand are already warning their colleagues to adjust their messaging.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Representative Rich McCormick of Georgia had <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/politics\/mccormick-confronted-by-angry-crowd-over-support-for-trumps-agenda\/A4FRX7YIUFD2RK7SFTNOKGMDQY\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">constituents shout, jeer and boo at him<\/a> at a recent town hall where he faced questions about the firings of federal workers and the Musk team\u2019s access to taxpayer information.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe have a message that\u2019s about saving Medicaid, Medicare,\u201d Mr. McCormick said, referring to Mr. Trump\u2019s promises not to touch either program. \u201cBut you can lose that message with one attitude, and if nothing else, we have to be careful how we message this so it doesn\u2019t come across as dispassionate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">One of the Republicans who ultimately opposed the repeal effort, Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, said she saw parallels between the 2017 push and current attempts to cut Medicaid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI feel like we are going back to the days of the A.C.A. when I was trying to explain to colleagues how Alaska was so disproportionately impacted,\u201d Ms. Murkowski said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">House Republicans have yet to write legislation laying out specific spending reductions and tax cuts that would fulfill their budget plan. Speaker Mike Johnson has insisted in recent days that they want to find \u201cefficiencies\u201d in Medicaid \u2014 \u201cnot cutting benefits for people who rightly deserve that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cYou don\u2019t want able-bodied workers on a program that is intended, for example, for single mothers with two small children who\u2019s just trying to make it,\u201d Mr. Johnson said in an interview on CNN. \u201cThat\u2019s what Medicaid is for. Not for 29-year-old males sitting on their couches playing video games.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He said Republicans would not fundamentally change the structure of the program, as some conservatives have long proposed, and would not establish a cap on federal funding for Medicaid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Many Republicans are comfortable with establishing work requirements for the program, but that change is estimated to save only around $100 billion. House Republicans\u2019 budget plan requires the committee that oversees Medicaid and Medicare to find more than eight times that in savings.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Getting to that number, even among Republicans, will be extraordinarily politically fraught. And because many states have expanded their Medicaid programs under the Affordable Care Act, doing so is <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/25\/us\/politics\/medicaid-cuts-republican-budget.html\" title=\"\">likely to affect a broad swath of the population<\/a> in states around the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI\u2019m not going to vote for Medicaid cuts,\u201d said Senator Josh Hawley, Republican of Missouri, who was elected in 2018. \u201cWork requirements are fine, but 21 percent of the residents in my state receive Medicaid or CHIP,\u201d he said, referring to the program that provides health coverage options for children whose families earn too much to qualify for Medicaid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">One of the Republicans who will almost certainly be squeezed in the process is Representative David Valadao of California, who <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/21\/us\/politics\/medicaid-republicans-budget.html\" title=\"\">represents a district where almost two in three people rely on Medicaid<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Since he was elected to Congress in 2012, he has won re-election in every cycle but one \u2014 in 2018.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Before he voted to approve the G.O.P. budget resolution this week, Mr. Valadao rose on the House floor to lay out the stakes of potential cuts \u2014 and to deliver his party leaders a warning. Achieving $880 billion in budget cuts, he said, \u201cis not an easy task.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI\u2019ve heard from countless constituents who tell me the only way they can afford health care is through programs like Medicaid,\u201d Mr. Valadao continued, \u201cand I will not support a final reconciliation bill that risks leaving them behind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cMedicaid cuts,\u201d he said, \u201care deeply unpopular with the American families who sent us here to deliver on President Trump\u2019s agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/01\/us\/politics\/trump-budget-medicaid.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2018, Democrats won back the House, flipping 41 seats including in conservative-leaning places like the suburbs of Utah and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[900,884,138,436,908,3376,203,714,111],"class_list":["post-9631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us","tag-democratic-party","tag-federal-budget-us","tag-health-insurance-and-managed-care","tag-house-of-representatives","tag-medicaid","tag-patient-protection-and-affordable-care-act-2010","tag-republican-party","tag-senate","tag-united-states-politics-and-government"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Democrats See Political Opening in G.O.P. 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