{"id":28859,"date":"2025-06-02T09:02:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T09:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=28859"},"modified":"2025-06-02T09:25:29","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T09:25:29","slug":"fact-check-trump-and-g-o-p-s-false-claims-on-bills-medicaid-cuts-and-deficit-hikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=28859","title":{"rendered":"Fact Check: Trump and G.O.P.\u2019s False Claims on Bill\u2019s Medicaid Cuts and Deficit Hikes"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Trump has sought to assuage some lawmakers\u2019 concerns over the bill\u2019s price tag and cuts to Medicaid with inaccurate claims.<\/p>\n

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As the Senate considers a domestic policy bill to enact the White House\u2019s agenda, President Trump and his allies have sought to assuage some lawmakers\u2019 concerns over its price tag and cuts to Medicaid with inaccurate claims.<\/p>\n

They have dismissed estimates of the effect of the \u201cone big, beautiful bill\u201d on the deficit as incorrect and described cuts to the health insurance program for poor Americans as simply trimming \u201cwaste, fraud and abuse.\u201d<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a fact-check of some of their claims.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe\u2019re not doing any cutting of anything meaningful. The only thing we\u2019re cutting is waste, fraud and abuse. With Medicaid, waste, fraud and abuse. There\u2019s tremendous waste, fraud and abuse.\u201d \u2014 Mr. Trump, in remarks to reporters on May 20<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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False.<\/strong> The bill passed by the House will reduce federal spending on Medicaid by at least $600 billion over a decade and reduce enrollment by about 10.3 million people, according to a preliminary estimate<\/a> from the Congressional Budget Office. But most of the changes<\/a> to Medicaid have little to do with waste, fraud or abuse as defined by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Edwin Park, a professor at Georgetown University whose research focuses on Medicaid and the Children\u2019s Health Insurance Program, said that some provisions could qualify as cutting \u201cwaste, fraud and abuse,\u201d like increasing assessments to make sure beneficiaries are not deceased.<\/p>\n

But most other provisions<\/a> fit into several categories of cuts and restrictions, according to Professor Park, targeting Medicaid expansion, limiting states\u2019 ability to finance Medicaid, imposing red tape on beneficiaries, rolling back protections against medical debt, forcing states to drop coverage, and limiting access to care and long-term care.<\/p>\n

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President Trump has sought to assuage some lawmakers\u2019 concerns over the bill\u2019s price tag and cuts to Medicaid with inaccurate claims.As the Senate considers a domestic policy bill to enact the White House\u2019s agenda, President Trump and his allies have sought to assuage some lawmakers\u2019 concerns over its price tag and cuts to Medicaid with inaccurate claims.They have dismissed estimates of the effect of the \u201cone big, beautiful bill\u201d on the deficit as incorrect and described cuts to the health insurance program for poor Americans as simply trimming \u201cwaste, fraud and abuse.\u201dHere\u2019s a fact-check of some of their claims.What Was Said\u201cWe\u2019re not doing any cutting of anything meaningful. The only thing we\u2019re cutting is waste, fraud and abuse. With Medicaid, waste, fraud and abuse. There\u2019s tremendous waste, fraud and abuse.\u201d \u2014 Mr. Trump, in remarks to reporters on May 20False. The bill passed by the House will reduce federal spending on Medicaid by at least $600 billion over a decade and reduce enrollment by about 10.3 million people, according to a preliminary estimate from the Congressional Budget Office. But most of the changes to Medicaid have little to do with waste, fraud or abuse as defined by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service.Edwin Park, a professor at Georgetown University whose research focuses on Medicaid and the Children\u2019s Health Insurance Program, said that some provisions could qualify as cutting \u201cwaste, fraud and abuse,\u201d like increasing assessments to make sure beneficiaries are not deceased.But most other provisions fit into several categories of cuts and restrictions, according to Professor Park, targeting Medicaid expansion, limiting states\u2019 ability to finance Medicaid, imposing red tape on beneficiaries, rolling back protections against medical debt, forcing states to drop coverage, and limiting access to care and long-term care.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28861,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28859"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28862,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28859\/revisions\/28862"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}