February 26 • 2025
Washington, D.C. – The Modern Medicaid Alliance issued the following statement:
“The latest House vote breaks a vital promise to more than 70 million Americans who depend on the Medicaid program and now face the potential for unprecedented, destabilizing cuts to their coverage and access to care. The full extent of cuts being considered go far beyond addressing ‘waste, fraud and abuse’ and would undermine Medicaid coverage for those who depend on it. Already, Senators are issuing stark warnings about the impact of Medicaid cuts on the stability of their communities, state budgets, hospitals and providers. We urge members of the House and Senate to block any Medicaid cuts or harmful policy proposals as part of the ongoing budget process.”
Opposition to Medicaid Cuts Grows
Politico (Feb. 24): “Some Senate Republicans have begun pushing back against major cuts to Medicaid. Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri, where more than 21 percent of the population is enrolled in Medicaid, told HuffPost he doesn’t support massive cuts to the program that House Republican leaders are weighing. Hawley joined Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) in the early hours of Friday morning in backing a Democratic amendment to the Senate budget resolution that would prevent tax cuts for the wealthy if any Medicaid funding is cut.”
HuffPost (Feb. 22): “‘Large cuts to Medicaid would hurt a lot of people in my state — and we voted overwhelmingly for President Trump,’ Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) said in an interview…”
Axios (Jan. 22): “Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), a key moderate vote who is not up for reelection, expressed the most concern about cuts. ‘I come from a state where Medicaid expansion has been really, really very key, so if it’s going to be part of reconciliation, [it’s something] I would be looking very critically at,’ she said.”