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Subcommittee members clash over $880 billion Medicaid savings figure and budget implications
Summary
Members of the House Education and Labor subcommittee traded sharp exchanges over an $880 billion Medicaid savings figure in the House majority’s budget blueprint, with Democratic members warning of deep coverage losses and Republicans arguing the committee can find savings without cutting eligibility.
Members of the House Education and Labor subcommittee spent a substantial portion of the hearing debating whether the House majority’s budget blueprint will require large cuts to Medicaid.
The dispute centered on an $880 billion figure cited by Democrats as the portion of the majority’s targeted savings that would fall on Medicaid if the committee’s jurisdiction were to shoulder the reduction. Ranking members warned that the cuts the committee is tasked to find would require ‘‘the…
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