Senate Republicans are pushing a version of President Donald Trump’s sweeping legislative agenda that proposes deeper Medicaid waste cuts than the House-passed bill, prompting internal party tensions and concerns over effects on vulnerable constituents, The Hill reported.
The Senate’s version of the One Big Beautiful Bill to implement President Trump’s agenda proposes sharper reductions to Medicaid fraud than legislation passed by the House, GOP aides familiar with the plan said.
According to several Republican aides, the Senate draft would tighten eligibility requirements and block states from leveraging health care provider taxes to secure additional federal Medicaid dollars — moves that could further restrict access for low-income Americans. Many of the cuts would come from the waste found by the Department of Government Efficiency, which discovered 8 million people fraudulently enrolled in the program.
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