12 House Republicans Oppose Possible Medicaid Cuts in Reconciliation Bill
- Twelve House Republicans, including Colorado Rep. Jeff Hurd, signed a letter urging U.S. House leadership to preserve Medicaid.
- The letter states that any cuts to Medicaid could negatively impact one million Coloradans who rely on the program for health care.
- The letter highlights that cuts could lead to a loss of 12,000 jobs and $1.3 billion in economic productivity in Colorado, affecting health care access for many.
- House Speaker Mike Johnson pledged to protect benefits for eligible recipients and asserted that the program will not be disrupted during budget discussions.
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Colorado lawmakers brace for special session over potential Medicaid cuts
There are now only seven days left in Colorado’s legislative session. But lawmakers and other state officials have for weeks been bracing for the possibility of coming back to the Capitol later this year to deal with potential federal cuts to Medicaid likely to be included in Congressional Republicans’ still-being-written budget proposal. “There certainly are a lot of indicators that would suggest that we might end up having to come back in the …

States that enshrined Medicaid expansion in their constitutions could be in a bind
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Feds plan to end state health program partnership
BOSTON (SHNS) - While policymakers wait for Washington to make crucial Medicaid funding decisions, the Trump administration has already signaled it will allow another Medicaid-related state funding stream -- one that supports an array of programs in Massachusetts -- to expire without extension. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services informed state Medicaid directors on April 10 that it does not intend to extend existing requests, or appr…
Trump's budget is a betrayal of his promise to working-class Americans
"Donald Trump and extreme MAGA Republicans are doing everything they can to tank our economy, drive us toward a recession and gut the health care of the American people by visiting upon them the largest Medicaid cut in history, along…
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