Summary
House Republicans cannot meet their budget target without major cuts to Medicare or Medicaid, according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).
Their budget plan requires $880 billion in cuts, but with Medicare excluded, Medicaid makes up 93% of the available funds.
This puts Republicans in a bind between conservative hard-liners demanding cuts and moderates opposing reductions to essential health programs.
While Trump claims Medicaid will be untouched, Speaker Mike Johnson argues it has excessive fraud.
Only consequential fraud is by medical corporations overcharging or scamming. Only going to get worse as they fire the auditors.
I mean if Republicans really wanted to root out fraud they have a resident expert with first hand knowledge.
Like the IRS, increasing funding to auditing services nets more savings than the input costs.
If republicans want to root out fraud … as is often said “suicide is always an option”. That’d be the best way to both drain the swamp and root out corruption by republicans lol