Politico January 13, 2025
By Chelsea Cirruzzo

With Ben Leonard

Driving The Day

GOP FLOATS HEALTH CARE CUTS — House Republicans are circulating a menu of options amounting to more than $5 trillion in cuts they could use to bankroll President-elect Donald Trump’s top priorities this year.

On the table: changes to Medicare, Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act. The list from the House Budget Committee could be used to finance a party-line reconciliation bill or other spending reduction efforts. The proposed cuts are highly ambitious, but not all are likely to become law, given the narrow margins for Republicans in the House and Senate.

I caught up with POLITICO Congress reporter and former Pulse author Ben Leonard to discuss the state of play.

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