First on FOX: Democrats have Medicaid Senate Republicans during Thursday evening's “Votes – Llamas” as potential cuts on the program, especially for Republicans who rely on it. I plan to post it on the record.
Sen. Tammy Baldwin, who just won reelection in a state that shook the wave of President Donald Trump, has introduced several amendments to the Senate GOP budget resolution aimed at preserving Medicaid. Exclusively digital.
Among her corrections tranches are several to protect Medicaid access and funding for seniors, children, people suffering from drug addiction, rural Americans, and pregnant women. There is something.
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Democrats plan to get Republicans to win offensive amendment votes. (Getty Images)
“Americans want to lower health care costs, rather than being separated from new moms, long-term care older adults and poor children,” Baldwin said in an exclusive statement to Fox News Digital. He spoke. “Republicans claim they'll protect Medicaid – despite their budget telling us otherwise – but they say their mouths are Have the opportunity to put their money where they have: they prevent Medicaid from being cut, they put it in a chopping block or fund their billionaire tax credits Would you like to do it?”
Her revision wins votes after Senate minority leaders Chuck Schumer, DN.Y., and others who were teeed by Democrats. According to Senate Democrat sources, the initial amendment in the evening aims to stop Republicans from updating Trump's prioritization of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Employment Act (TCJA).
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Schumer and the Democrats line up a large number of revised votes. (AP Photo/j. Scott Apple White)
If passed, the amendment prohibits “handouts” to billionaires or billionaires under the new tax law. Specifically, the settlement bill would stop offering tax cuts to people who earn more than $1,000,000.
R-Mo. Sen. Josh Hawley of the group recently rang out about potential Medicaid cuts. “I don't like the idea of a large Medicaid cut, and I shouldn't need any kind of Medicare cut,” he said in an interview with the Huffington Post.
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Holy pushed back potential Medicaid and Medicare cuts. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc, Getty Images)
Such cuts prove to be unpopular in Republican states with significant Medicaid compensation, such as Louisiana, Arkansas, Kentucky and West Virginia. , KFF.
After Senate Republicans I cleared the procedural vote Last week's budget sparked a 50-hour debate clock that would end on Thursday evening. The voting marathon, known as “Voting Llamas” then begins.
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Medicaid reductions have a major impact on some red states. (istock)
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Senators could introduce an unlimited number of amendments, which would all win votes on the Senate floor. This process forces Republicans to adopt potential votes that are potentially offensive by their democratic counterparts.
Proceeding in the voting marathon seems to be a calculation risk for Senate Republicans after Trump approved the House GOP budget resolution on the true society against theirs. But Vice President JD Vance gave GOP Senators a green light to continue their budget despite this, sources told Fox News Digital.
