Josh Hawley is registered on the Medicaid Cups, an exhort gop to follow the example of Trump

Senator Josh Hawley has again drawn a line in the sand on cuts offered at the benefits of Medicaid, and warned his colleagues to follow the example of President Donald Trump and to leave the mainly used health care program.

The committees of the Senate led by Les Républicains have spent the last weeks since the GOP Chamber advanced its version of the president’s “Big, Beautiful Bill”, preparing their own adjustments to the colossal bill, but a large part of the accent was put on the work carried out by the Senate committee.

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Senator Josh Hawley, R-MO. (Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call, included via Getty Images)

The committee, which is responsible for health care, taxes and other political provisions, should publish its piece of the package of budget reconciliation on Tuesday afternoon. The MEDICAIDIA provisions among the GOP in the Chamber, in particular, were a collision point for a small group of Senate republicans.

What these changes from the Senate of the bill could look like could start or win the momentum of the enormous legislative ensemble in the upper chamber.

Hawley, R-MO, is part of this cohort and has long been frank in his position that if the Republicans of the Senate produce a version of the “Big and Beautiful Bill” of the president who strips his voters, he will not support the package. But his vision of Medicaid comes up against tax hawks who are looking for deeper expenses.

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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. “Whoever asked me and who is interested, is that, why do we not listen to the guy who won the elections that said he did not want medical services reductions, he does not want rural hospitals to close. He wants Medicare to be touched at all.”

Friday, the legislators’ remarks occurred during a press call discussed the inclusion of his law on the remuneration of exposure to radiation (RECA), which provides compensation to people exposed to nuclear waste, in the “large and beautiful bill”.

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Hawley said that adding was certainly sweetening for his support, given that the measure was his “leading legislative priority for two years now”. However, Medicaid is one of its main problems in the wider combat of reconciliation.

The legislator said he had no problem with some of the Medicaid brand changes that the republican counterparts of the Chamber wanted, including more strict work requirements, the start of illegal immigrants of the roles of services and the rooting of waste, fraud and abuse in the program which serves tens of millions of Americans.

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However, he noted that around 1.3 million Missourians rely on Medicaid and the Health Insurance Program (Chip) and argued that most of them were working.

“These are not people sitting, they are working,” he said. “They are on Medicaid because they cannot afford private health insurance, and they do not get it.”

“And I just think it’s wrong to go see these people and say:” Well, you know, we know that you are doing your best, we know that you are working hard, but we will remove your access to health care “”, he continued.