GOP senator warns Medicaid cuts could derail Trump megabill
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) is warning that President Trump’s megabill could run off the tracks this week if Senate Republican leaders fail to address his GOP colleagues’ concerns that deep cuts to Medicaid spending would devastate rural hospitals in their home states.
Hawley said Republican leaders provided little detail Monday night about how they would help rural hospitals, nursing homes and community health care providers in rural areas.
“I am confident it will not be put on the floor as it is currently. Something will change. They’ll add something; it’s just unclear to me what it is,” he said of the pending Senate legislation.
“It’s all a work in progress,” he said, warning: “This rural hospital stuff, this could threaten the progress of the whole bill.
“Let’s resolve this........
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