Republicans Just Passed A $4.5 Trillion Bill — Here’s What It Means For Your Taxes, Health Care, And Immigrant Neighbors

Jeffries said the measure amounted to an battle connected wellness attraction and would “effectively extremity Medicaid arsenic we cognize it.”

Several mean Republicans said they had qualms astir the bill’s Medicaid cuts, but Fitzpatrick was the lone 1 who followed through. For one, Rep. David Valadao (R-Calif.), who said Saturday, “I volition ballot no,” voted yes. 

Johnson and different apical Republicans insisted the measure does not chopped Medicaid, that it simply reduces “waste, fraud and abuse,” successful patently untrue statements.