The Senate’s model of a invoice to enact President Trump’s agenda goes additional than a Home-passed invoice to cut back Medicaid spending, in keeping with GOP aides conversant in the laws.
GOP aides say it’ll go additional to tighten Medicaid eligibility necessities and to limit states from utilizing well being care supplier taxes to attract down extra federal Medicaid funding.
“It’s nonetheless f’d up,” mentioned a GOP aide concerning the Senate’s Medicaid laws, which does nothing to alleviate the issues of a number of Senate Republicans who raised objections to the Medicaid language within the Home-passed invoice.
At the least 4 Republican senators have publicly raised issues that Medicaid spending cuts handed by the Home might harm their constituents: Sens. Susan Collins (Maine), Josh Hawley (R), Jerry Moran (Kan.) and Lisa Murkowski (Alaska).
Senate GOP leaders can afford to lose solely three votes and nonetheless move the party-line invoice.
A broad vary of GOP senators, together with Senate Finances Committee Chair Lindsey Graham (S.C.) and Sens. Ron Johnson (Wis.), Mike Lee (Utah) and Rick Scott (Fla.) had known as for extra deficit discount within the invoice, which is anticipated to spend roughly $150 billion on border safety and immigration enforcement and enhance protection spending by one other $150 billion.