Forbes March 14, 2025
States like New York and California, but also Louisiana, Kentucky, West Virginia and New Mexico would be hit hardest by potential Medicaid cuts included in Republican budget proposals due to their higher shares of recipients of the service. This is according to an analysis by the Center for American Progress and Census data. Congressional districts in New York City, Detroit and California’s Central Valley would lose funding to the tune of $4 billion to $5 billion each over a nine-year period, the report found.
While most of the districts that top the list are represented by Democrats at the moment, CA-22 (-$5.0 billion), KY-05 (-3.6 billion), CA-23 (-3.4 billion) and LA-04 (-3.3 billion), for example, are Republican-led. The calculations include...
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