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Josh Hawley warns GOP Medicaid cuts are ‘morally wrong and politically suicidal’
The Hill ^ | May 12, 2025 | Nathaniel Weixel

Posted on 10/10/2025 11:43:17 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege

“Mr. Trump has promised working-class tax cuts and protection for working-class social insurance, such as Medicaid,” Hawley wrote. “But now a noisy contingent of corporatist Republicans — call it the party’s Wall Street wing — is urging Congress to ignore all that and get back to the old-time religion: corporate giveaways, preferences for capital and deep cuts to social insurance.”

Hawley has consistently spoken up about his opposition to the House plan to use Medicaid cuts to pay for the party-line megabill. The House Energy and Commerce Committee has been charged with finding at least $880 billion in federal spending cuts over the next decade.

Missouri is one of several red states that expanded Medicaid. Despite his longtime opposition to ObamaCare, Hawley has made it clear he will protect access to Medicaid in his state and will not support legislation that would lead to benefit cuts for Missourians.

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TOPICS: Missouri; Issues; Polls; State and Local; U.S. Congress; U.S. Senate
KEYWORDS: 0carenightmare; 2026midterms; 40trilliondebt; aca; assitantdemocrats; debt; deficit; gopestablishment; healthcare; inflation; insurance; medicaid; nathanielweixel; obamacare; rino; thehill; theshill; uniparty; zerocare

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1 posted on 10/10/2025 11:43:17 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Tell it to the democrats, Hawley.


2 posted on 10/10/2025 11:47:31 AM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing)like he had it with him.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Great. Some people just can’t handle winning.


3 posted on 10/10/2025 11:48:38 AM PDT by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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To: All

The state of Missouri is more than allowed to pay more into Medicaid


4 posted on 10/10/2025 11:49:38 AM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Yeah the GOP wants to lose the Mid Terms as the economy is in the crapper and not much is being done about it.


5 posted on 10/10/2025 11:50:30 AM PDT by dpetty121263
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
Yeah the GOP wants to lose the Mid Terms as the economy is in the crapper and not much is being done about it.

It is worrying…

6 posted on 10/10/2025 11:56:17 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Give them an inch, and millions of illegals appear in the Treasury database.


7 posted on 10/10/2025 11:59:27 AM PDT by Thrownatbirth (.....Iraq Invasion fan since '91. )
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

8 posted on 10/10/2025 12:01:23 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (NeverTrumpers are Republicans the same way Liz Cheney is a Republican.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
a noisy contingent of corporatist Republicans — call it the party’s Wall Street wing —

Name names, Mr Hawley.

9 posted on 10/10/2025 12:03:00 PM PDT by Semper Vigilantis (A Free Press MAY distort the truth, but a Controlled Press WILL distort the truth.)
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To: dpetty121263

Gi sell you never Trump garbage elswhere.


10 posted on 10/10/2025 12:03:15 PM PDT by cowboyusa ( YESHUA IS KING OF AMEbRICA AND HE WILL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

You know what is morally wrong, Josh. Dumping $40 trillion of debt on your children and grandchildren so you can get re-elected. If you don’t want to cut Medicaid, tell us how you are going to reduce the deficit.


11 posted on 10/10/2025 12:03:54 PM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard; cowboyusa

Agree about the deficit needing to be reined in - but not sure how voters will respond to kitchen table realities on the ground. Don’t want a repeat of 2022 or worse. Admittedly concern trolling here. What can be done to fix healthcare premiums in the short term?


12 posted on 10/10/2025 12:05:52 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

That’s right, steal from productivity, and use the proceeds to pay people not to work. With friends like Hawley who needs enemies?


13 posted on 10/10/2025 12:08:27 PM PDT by nagant
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

I have a delightful friend who provides me with homegrown tomatoes. Dear little woman who lives on less than $800 per month. Pleasant, friendly, intelligent. She’d really suffer without Medicaid.

I’m sure there are many more like her. Illegals and lazy bums should be kicked off Medicaid, but not good Americans like my friend.


14 posted on 10/10/2025 12:09:08 PM PDT by Veto! (-)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
He's right.

You can't make it more difficult to get Medicaid unless you're coming up with an alternative that allows those on it to buy affordable insurance out of pocket.

Republicans are going to own all the problems with Medicaid and those falling through the cracks.

15 posted on 10/10/2025 12:10:01 PM PDT by Kazan
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Sorry Josh. Those UN outhouses south of the Rio Grande are the scum that is “morally wrong”. What kind of a legitimate government would threaten to kill their populace if they don’t sneak into the U.S. looking for “a better life” and “free healthcare” and never come back without a wad of U.S. Dollars to turn into to their scumbag government.


16 posted on 10/10/2025 12:14:31 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Fire the Rutgers Aunt Teefer "perfeser's" goat smelling butt NOW!!! Mark the Braying ass!)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

You know what is morally wrong, Josh. Dumping $40 trillion of debt on your children and grandchildren so you can get re-elected. If you don’t want to cut Medicaid, tell us how you are going to reduce the deficit.

I like Hawley but he is wrong here. Not sure what he and others don’t get. We have a spending problem not a revenue problem. These constant give aways have to end and this is a good place to start. The most recent study I saw is that these subsidies overwhelmingly go to D voters.


17 posted on 10/10/2025 12:20:10 PM PDT by BK_in Central Texas
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
Why is Missouri such a sh*thole that it requires people from other states to pay Missourians' hospital bills?

Maybe each State should provide for its own.

18 posted on 10/10/2025 12:39:02 PM PDT by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Hawley joins Shroomer in admitting that medicaid is about political parties, not health care.


19 posted on 10/10/2025 12:40:55 PM PDT by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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To: Veto!

If she’s 65 or older she should be on medicare, not medicaid.

Also, the medicaid cuts are not going to effect legitimate recipients. They are aimed at the able-bodied working age adults and illegal immigrants. All the people that Biden added to the burden on the American taxpayer.

Kicking them off should increase self deportation and open jobs up for the basement dwellers.


20 posted on 10/10/2025 12:46:02 PM PDT by Valpal1 (Not even the police are safe from the police!!!)
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