GOP governors stay silent amid plans to slash Medicaid spending in their states

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: NPR

July 3, 2025 5:00 AM ET


The last time a Republican-controlled Congress and President Donald Trump moved to slash Medicaid spending, in 2017, a key political force stood in their way: GOP governors.

Now, as Congress steamrolls toward passing historic Medicaid cuts of about $1 trillion over 10 years through Trump's tax and spending legislation, red state governors are saying little publicly about what it does to health care — even as they face reductions that will punch multibillion-dollar holes in their states' budgets.

Medicaid, a program jointly run by states and the federal government, covers more than 70 million low-income or disabled people, including nearly half of the nation's children. Republicans say the $900 billion-a-year program was allowed to grow too large under Democrats Barack Obama and Joe Biden by adding nondisabled adults they say don't deserve government assistance, and they have long sought to scale it back.

Some of the biggest health cuts in the legislation Trump calls the "One Big Beautiful Bill" are achieved through new policies that would reduce enrollment by imposing more paperwork demands on enrollees, including a requirement that many prove they're working. Those policies would affect only states that expanded Medicaid to more low-income people under the Affordable Care Act. Nineteen of those states are led by Republican governors. Their silence on the bill's health measures is giving political cover to GOP lawmakers from their states as they seek to cut Medicaid coverage for millions of people who gained it within the last decade.

Read more: https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/07/03/nx-s1-5455058/gop-governors-medicaid-cuts-trump-tax-bill

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It's gonna blow holes in GOP budgets.

[Silent Type]

1. Remember Georgia's GOPer gubnor was opposed to Medicaid expansion for fear funding would be cut. No chit GOPer.

[PSPS]

2. Plus, they delay the cuts until after the mid-terms, trying to dodge blame.

[CountAllVotes]

3. One Big Bullsh*t Bill

Buh bye beautiful. You were ugly as sh*t to begin with.

Who woulda thunk?

[cstanleytech]

4. I support the cuts.......if it causes us to get 60+ in the Senate and a 60+ percentage in the House.

Plus control over more State level government because what was passed now can be undone.
Sure, it's going to reek for millions now but if in the long term it helps with doing things like forcing the wealthy to pay their fair share and maybe a free Nationwide healthcare system then I say go for it.

[angrychair]

5. I truly wish that were true

But the American people want this. They literally begged for it on election night.

For them this is their dream come true. They want to suffer for their orange god.

[Bengus81]

17. Most Americans do NOT want that shit bill. Poll after poll showed that....

Even those MAGA idiots know what's coming their way.

[angrychair]

20. They do want this

Name a single Republican governor that has complained? A single Republican state representative?
There is zero doubt that this bill will, not maybe, will, create a state budget hole big enough to drive an aircraft carrier through, yet not a single one of them has complained.
Republicans have sold out their constituents, their citizens, in a uniquely troubling way. They are willingly selling them out in favor of the Mango Mussolini.

[Bengus81]

21. I'm not talking about those in office who have been threatened to not speak out.

Of course they love everything about it IF they can keep their high paying Guberment job. No...I'm talking about run of the mill idiot MAGOTS. They know this bill will HURT them and their family.

[LiberalArkie]

6. From what I was reading these acts go into effect at different times and years.

I think we need a calendar timeline. I think it is so designed (from my reading, which might not be correct) that it will hit after the mid terms so (Not My Fault) can be played and if Democrats win it Has to be their fault.

If so, campaigns need to keep this in the publics mindset. Constantly.

[Jack Valentino]

11. That is correct. The 'work requirements' for both Medicaid and Snap begin

on December 31, 2026. (no idea why it isn't Jan. 1, 2027, but whatever). The original House bill called for 2029, but the far-right hard-asses in the House wanted it to start sooner, so it was switched to "December 31,2026".

As I understand both programs before this bill, those subject to work requirements (people under 55 years old, which this bill changes to age 65) were able to receive these benefits for 3 months out of a 3-year period before they would have to prove themselves to be working, so I presume that still holds true--- so that no one would be cut off before April 2027. (I am making a presumption about this--- as far as I know now, that is how it would work.... unless there's something else in this big bastard bill that we don't know about...)

This 'work requirement' is a giant FRAUD--- it IS going to cut off a lot of people who ARE working,
but may have difficulty proving hours--- such as gig workers, contractors who are self-employed and thus don't get a paycheck showing hours worked, ETC.

That IS the GOP plan, to cut people off INCLUDING people who are working. Instituting these 'work requirements' and making people prove it every six months is a giant SCAM to cut more people off of medicaid and snap, even if they ARE working.

[LiberalArkie]

16. Jan 1, 2027 would be the new congress right?

[Bengus81]

18. That's the phony shit they pull to get them past the mid-terms. Anyone really watching that

shit show bill can figure out the CON in that bill.

[travelingthrulife]

19. Yes a clear timeline that is presented over and over on the media and in Congress.

It HAS to be a visual aid though, not the endless blathering that turns Americans off. They have the attention spans of gnats.

The House Minority Speaker speaks for 100s and 100s of hours prior to the bill passing. Who cares? Who listened?

[turbinetree]

7. They can all pound sand................lots of it .................chickenshits..............bac gawk...... bac gawk...

[relayerbob]

8. They've been avoiding it and finding ways around it for years

They aren't saying anything because they are happy to fuck their citizens over.

[ancianita]

9. Silence is consent.

[KT2000]

10. Washington Governor Ferguson

has not been silent. He has warned the citizens what will happen to Medicaid if the bill passed.

I just learned the states are hamstrung by the bill on how much a state can even put into Medicaid for their citizens. Apparently the goal really is murder.

Local doctor explains it:

[TomSlick]

12. The MAGA party is a death cult.

MAGA Governors and state legislators are as much a part of the cult as the MAGAs in DC.

The intent it to kill as many people as possible, even if it requires an act of political suicide.

[thought crime]

13. Culling the herd

Under this regime, being weak is a death sentence.

[orangecrush]

14. KICK

[Paladin]

15. I quit expecting anything better from the trump cocksuckers, some time ago. (nt)