On Wednesday, President Donald Trump endorsed a House Republican budget plan that would impose hundreds of millions of dollars in cuts to Medicaid, a healthcare program jointly funded by federal and state money, which helps provide coverage for Americans with lower incomes, including pregnant women, children and people with disabilities, among others..

Trump endorsed the plan over another Senate proposal, which sought to pass much of his legislative agenda through two separate bills. Trump, who had previously said either plan was fine with him, said in a Truth Social post on Wednesday that the House plan was better, in his mind, because it puts most everything he wants into “one big beautiful bill.”

“[T]he House Resolution implements my FULL America First Agenda, EVERYTHING, not just parts of it!” Trump wrote in his post.

The bill Trump has endorsed would make over $1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), which is sometimes referred to as food stamps. According to the bill, Medicaid would see around $880 billion in cuts from that total, with SNAP losing around $230 billion in funding.

The endorsement of that bill came just hours after Trump said during a Fox News interview on Tuesday evening that he wouldn’t allow large cuts to several social welfare programs, including Medicaid.

“Social Security … Medicare, Medicaid — none of that stuff is going to be touched,” Trump promised.

Trump was ambiguous over his plans for Medicaid during the........

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