The Republican Party is controlling medicaid and

Washington – The Republicans of the House of Representatives who voted to approve the tax bill of President Donald Trump last week knows that the Federal Medicaid program will reduce in $ 1 billion and kick millions of people from their medical care.

But that sounds bad. And people already hate this law. So, instead of saying that, the Republicans are testing a new way of talking about the bill that everyone voted: just pretend they voted to increase Medicaid’s expense!

“I don’t know what a cut can call any of this when we increase the expenses of Medicaid by $ 200 billion,” the representative Rob Bresnahan (R-PA.) Falsely claimed Tuesday on Tuesday on Tuesday A conservative podcast“The Bob Clarao Show”.

Later in the program, Bresnahan also falsely said that the law will lead to “the greatest reduction in deficit in, I think, in what will pass 30 years.”

It is not clear what the Republican of Pennsylvania is talking about the $ 200 billion, but is being misleading at best and lying on the worst. The Non -Party Congress Budget Office has clearly presented how Trump’s Tax and Expenses Law Cut $ 1 billion of Medicaid and Increase the deficit by almost $ 3.3 billion In the next 10 years.

A Bresnahan spokesman did not respond to a request for comments.

In the same interview, he tried to promote that the law includes a new fund of $ 50 billion to help rural hospitals to survive the devastating medical cuts of the bill. But it is only simple mathematics that $ 50 billion is not enough money to compensate $ 1 billion, or 20 times more, in cuts.

The representative Gabe Evans (R-Colo.), Meanwhile, reflected that there has been “a ton of erroneous information on the tax law and said that the federal expense of Medicaid increases, which is false.

“According to this bill, there will be more federal money in Medicaid under the Republican Plan every year during the forecast duration of this bill,” Evans, “Evans Said last Thursday In the public radio program, “Here & Now at any time.”

When asked what is talking about, Evans spokeswoman Delanie Bomer said she refers to the fact that Medicaid’s costs generally tend to increase every year, a ridiculously strange point to make that completely happen on Republicans who cut $ 1 billion of the program.

Evans essentially argues that while the bill can reduce $ 1 billion of medicaid and kick millions of medical care, the government is still paying for the increase in annual medical care costs for those who can still obtain the benefits of Medicaid. He is not talking about the elephant in the room, which are all people who will not have health coverage.

“Medicaid’s spending is always going up,” Bomer said about Evans’ argument. “It is simply uploading to a lesser extent” because Trump’s fiscal law will eliminate $ 1 billion from the program.

When asked why Evans voted for such a devastating cut to Medicaid, Bomer said the Republican congressman does not want “illegal immigrants to receive medical care funded by taxpayers” and that they want to make sure that people meet the work requirements to qualify for the benefits of Medicaid.

Except that undocumented immigrants are generally not eligible for Medicaid. And hospitals cannot reject them if they need medical attention, which means that hospitals are already in the strictest financial base: rural hospitals in particular, than Serve many patients with Medicaid – It will be the most affected by the loss of dollars. The argument of work requirements is also misleading, because Trump’s fiscal law imposes new strict requirements that people who would otherwise qualify for Medicaid can now fall into cracks.

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Representative Derrick Van Order (R-Wis.) He is testing a new different way of talking about his vote for Trump’s fiscal law: he is trying to make credit For the governor of Wisconsin, Tony Evers (D) and the state legislature, they rush to approve a state budget to block a higher coincidence of federal dollars for Medicaid in the state under Trump’s law.

Because Wisconsin state leaders moved quickly to do this, the State will obtain $ 1 billion in new annual funds. In more than a dozen publications on social networks, Order are still insisting that if it were not for him, his governor and his state legislature would not have obtained this money.

Except that they are order had nothing to do with their efforts.

“The congressman Van Order never personally advocated the governor or our office so that the provision of evaluation of the hospital is included in the state budget until it was clearly part of the state budget, it had nothing to do with the hospital evaluation to be part of the state budget of bipartis with the republican leaders, and had nothing to do with the fact that the fact that the governor decided to present the state budget before the Round Recognition, the bill was signed, the bill was signed, “. Leather He told News themezone Tuesday.

When asked why he continues to take credit for these $ 1 billion when it seems that it had nothing to do with that, Van Order said the fact that the governor signed the state budget at an hour of the time they were listening to.

“The only reason [Evers] Signed that the bill at 1:30 am was to make the deadline I spoke and wrote, “he told News themezone.” Period. Do that mathematics. “