What: The New York Times’ Margot Sanger-Katz looks at how Trump’s claims to protect Medicaid aren’t really mathematically impossible if Republicans pass $4 trillion in tax cuts *and* somehow cover those costs. Medicaid covers 40% of births and approximately 15-20 million women in the United States.
Key line: “In the current House plan, Medicaid cuts would make up nearly half of the required $2 trillion in spending cuts, if Medicare is untouched. Hitting the target without them would mean revising the bill’s language as well as enormous cuts to remaining programs.”
Source: New York Times