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Hay. Josh Houley again drew the line in the sand on the proposed cuts in favor of Medicaid and warned his colleagues to follow the president Donald Trump Lead and leave a widely used healthcare program to a large extent intact.
Senate committees led by Republicans spent the last few weeks after The house is gop Promoting his version of the “Big, Beautiful Bill” of the President, preparation of his own settings for a tremendous bill, but much attention was made at the work carried out by the Senate Financing Committee.
Senator Josh Houley, R-Mo. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
It is expected that the group responsible for health care, tax and other policy provisions will release a piece of budget reconciliation on Tuesday. In particular, the provisions of Medicaid, in particular, were fragile places for a small group of Senate Republicans.
What are these changes on Senate The side account may look like it can go to the beginning or conclude a massive legislative package in the upper house.
Houley, R-Mo, is one cohort, and it has long been opened in its position that when the Senate Republicans produce a “big, beautiful bill” of the president that eliminates his voters, he will not support the package. But his vision in Medicaid contractions with financial hawks looking for deeper costs.
President Donald Trump arrives at the Air Force first to the Hagersstown Regional Airport, Hagersstown, Massachusetts, on the way to Camp -Devid, Massachusetts, Sunday, June 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce CNETA)
One of his main arguments is to listen to what Trump wants to do.
“This is what I continue to say to my colleagues,” he said. “Anyone who asks me and who is interested is why we just don’t listen to the guy who won the election, who said he did not want any reduction of Medicaid payments, he does not want rural hospitals. He wants Medicare not to touch at all.”
The legislator’s comments occurred during the press call on Friday, discussing the inclusion of its radiation compensation law (RECA), which provides compensation to people who were subjected to nuclear waste, into a “big, beautiful bill”.
The Trump’s bill was sent to the Senate after the ward passed it. (AP; Getty; Fox News Digital)
Houley said the app was certainly a sweetener for his support, given that this measure was his “leading legislative priority for two years”. However, Medicaid is one of its main issues in the broad struggle of reconciliation.
The legislator stated that he has no problem with some brand changes to Medicaid who would like national colleagues, including tougher work requirements, download Illegal immigrants From the auxiliary rolls and the introduction of waste, fraud and abuse in the program serving tens of millions of Americans.
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However, he noted that about 1.3 million Missourists are counting on Medicaid and the Child Health Insurance Program (Chip) and claimed that most worked.
“These are not people sitting around, it’s people who work,” he said. “They are in Medicaid because they can’t afford private health insurance and they don’t get it to work.”
“And I just think it’s wrong to go to these people and say, ‘Well, you know, we know what you do all the best, we know what you are working, but we’re going to pick up your healthcare access,” he continued.
