Center on Budget and Policy Priorities March 17, 2025
Medicaid is a popular program that covers 72 million people.[1] The majority of U.S. adults across party affiliations oppose cuts to Medicaid.[2] Nevertheless, Republicans in Congress want to pass deep and damaging cuts to Medicaid to pay for tax cuts for wealthy people as part of their budget legislation. This has led to enormous pushback, and some Republicans are now claiming their changes would not hurt eligible people who are enrolled in Medicaid to receive the health care they need. This is false. Republicans’ push to cut Medicaid by hundreds of billions of dollars has led them to consider a set of policies that would, indeed, harm Medicaid enrollees. (See Figure 1.)
Some of these proposals will directly and immediately...
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