Washington, the Republicans of the Chamber who voted for President Donald Trump’s tax account last week, knows it will reduce the Federal Medicaid program by 1 trillion and release millions of people from their health care.
But it sounds bad. And people are already hating this law. So, instead of saying it, Republicans are trying to talk about the Law on the Law on which everyone voted: just pretending to vote for the increase in Medicaid!
“I don’t know how you can name any of these reductions when we increase Medicaid costs of $ 200 billion,” said Rob Bresnahan, a spokesman for a false manner on Tuesday. Conservative podcastBob Cordaro Show.
Later, in the show, Bazena also falsely stated that the law would lead to “the biggest deficit decrease, I think what will be 30 years old”.
It is unclear what the Pennsylvania Republican speaks about $ 200 billion, but it is at best misleading the worst. Non -partial Congress Budget Service clearly stated how the short tax and expense law will be From Medicaid Reduce 1 Trillion USD and Increase the deficit of nearly 3.3 trillion USD Over the next 10 years.
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A spokesman for Besnahan did not respond to the request to comment.
In the same interview, he tried to say that the law includes a new $ 50 billion fund that would help rural hospitals survive, avoiding the drainage of the bill’s devastating Medicaid. But it’s just simple math that $ 50 billion is not enough money to compensate for $ 1 trillion – or 20 times more.
Meanwhile, representative Gabe Evans (“R-Colo”) misled that the tax law was “a lot of misinformation” and said it was actually increasing the federal medicine costs, which is wrong.
“Under this bill will be more federal money every year to Medicaid under the Republican plan for the projected duration of this bill,” – Evans said last Thursday Public radio show “Here and now”.
When asked what he was talking about, Evans spokeswoman Delanie Bomer said he states that Medicaid costs are usually every year – it is ridiculously strange to completely shine against Republicans reducing 1 trillion dollars.
Evans basically states that while the bill can reduce $ 1 trillion from Medicaid and repel millions of people from health care, the government still pays for increased annual health care costs, which can still receive Medicaid benefits. He does not talk about an elephant in the room, these are all people who will not have health at all.
“Medicaid costs always rise,” the bomer said of the Evans’ argument. “It just comes from a lesser degree” as the short tax law will take 1 trillion dollars from the program.
Asked why Evans voted for such a devastating Medicaid reduction, the bomer said the GOP Congressman did not want “illegal immigrants ‘taxpayers’ health care” and wants to make sure people meet job requirements to obtain Medicaid benefits.
With the exception of immigrants without documents, Medicaid cannot usually be obtained. And hospitals cannot distract them if they need medical attention, it means Serve many Medicaid patients – Dollars will suffer the most difficult to suffer. The arguments of the work requirements also mislead, as the short tax law lays down such strict new requirements that people who otherwise get into Medicaid are likely to fall into cracks.
Home Republicans after voting for Gut Medicaid is a damage control regime – and it becomes strange. Getty images
Rep. Derrick van Order (R-Wis.) Tests a different new way to talk about his vote for Trump’s tax law: he tries to assume creditFor the Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers (D) and the State Law Publisher, who is in a hurry to maintain the state budget to record the higher federal dollars matches in the state under Trump’s law.
As the leaders of the State of Wisconsin quickly started to do so, the state will receive $ 1 billion of new anniversary funding. In more than a dozen reports of social media, the Van Order requires that if he had not, his governor and the state -owned legislator would not have received this money.
With the exception of the Van Order, they had nothing to do with their efforts.
“Congress Van Order has never personally disagreed with the governor or our office for the hospital’s assessment of the state budget until it was clearly part of the state budget, he had nothing to do with the hospital’s assessment. Cudaback told Huffpost on Tuesday.
When asked why he continues to try to take credit for this $ 1 billion when he didn’t seem to have anything to do, Van Order said the governor had signed the state budget into the law in the late hour, showing that they listen to it.
“The only reason [Evers] Signed an account at 1:30 am to set the term I talked about and I wrote about it, “he told Huffpost. Do that mathematics. “