Big Cuts To Medicaid Reportedly On The Menu For House Republicans

A list of options a conservative leader has circulated includes key elements of the failed attempt to repeal Obamacare, according to Politico.

Cuts to Medicaid that could cause millions of Americans to lose health insurance are on a list of budget options now circulating among House Republicans, according to a new report from Politico.

The list came from the office of House Budget Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-Texas), per Politico, whose sources stressed that the idea was just one item on a “menu” of possibilities for spending cuts. The ambitious list also proposes sweeping reductions in food assistance and a rollback of subsidies for clean energy that were a signature achievement of President Joe Biden.

Attempts to reach Arrington’s office over the weekend were not successful, but the list of options tracks closely with recommendations he issued through his committee last year.

All told, the new cuts together would reduce federal spending by $5.7 trillion over ten years. That would represent a significant shift in how much money the federal government spends — and what services provides for the American public.

But the potential scale of the cuts would also make the proposals difficult to pass, given Republicans’ slight, three-seat majority in the House and Democrats’ near certain opposition.