The trillion dollars in "savings" you reference didn't exist. And I know it didn't exist because those Medicaid funding caps were the reason all those moderate "Tuesday Group" Republicans were opposed to the bill. What this means is that the GOP would have been forced to drop that trillion dollars in savings in order to get the moderates in their own party on board -- and that's even before the Democrats in the U.S. Senate got involved in the conversation.
the Tuesday Group doesn’t seem to have much of a problem continuing caps on Puerto Rico and neither do the Dems. So they can’t really hit very hard on that.
The Dems will fight over killing medic-aid expansion, but the road rash reality is we have 73 million medic-aid recipients and 90 million working people. We’re in the days we used to worry about. And we can also make states accountable for how their work-to-welfare grants are spent instead of throwing money down a hole; how many in, how many out, success rate. Get the unemployed on medic-aid employed and get medic-aid back to what it’s supposed to be - a bootstrap program, not a career. I’m not sure how much 25M people off the medic-aid budget translates to? but it’s probably about a third :)