Medicaid, GOP
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House Republicans plan to enact work requirements and more frequent eligibility checks for Medicaid. But the proposal does not pursue some of the deeper cuts that lawmakers had considered.
President Donald Trump has repeatedly vowed he wouldn't allow Medicaid to be cut, but House Republicans' bill to fund his agenda aims to cut hundreds of billions of dollars from the program that provides health care for poor, elderly and disabled Americans.
New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham said, "People will die. Children will die," if the Republican plans to cut Medicaid come to fruition.