A new analysis from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) shows that major cuts to Medicaid proposed by Republicans would remove millions of enrollees from the program.

Republicans have repeatedly claimed that the cuts they’ve proposed would only target supposedly wasteful spending and abuse of Medicaid, which is funded jointly by states and the federal government. But the new report undermines that notion, demonstrating that defunding Medicaid at the levels proposed by far right lawmakers would harm people dependent on the program.

Medicaid covers health care costs for more than 70 million people with limited incomes in the U.S. Republicans are considering cuts to Medicaid funding to the tune of $880 billion, and are planning to use the funds to cover the $5 trillion in tax cuts being pushed by President Donald Trump and Republicans.

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) and other Republican lawmakers have repeatedly claimed that the spending cuts would not harm people who are enrolled in Medicaid.

“We have to root out fraud, waste and abuse,” Johnson said in a recent Fox News interview.

But the CBO analysis found that some of the cuts being proposed would result in around 5.5 million Medicaid recipients losing their benefits — roughly 1 in every 13 individuals who benefit from the........

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