{"id":1050753,"date":"2025-01-10T14:59:07","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T19:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1050753"},"modified":"2025-01-10T14:59:09","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T19:59:09","slug":"icymi-politico-house-gop-puts-medicaid-aca-climate-measures-on-chopping-block","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/icymi-politico-house-gop-puts-medicaid-aca-climate-measures-on-chopping-block\/","title":{"rendered":"ICYMI: Politico: House GOP Puts Medicaid, ACA, Climate Measures on Chopping Block"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"341\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image.png?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1038290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image.png 1500w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image.png?resize=300,100 300w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image.png?resize=768,256 768w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image.png?resize=1024,341 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key Point:<\/strong> \u201cHouse Republicans are passing around a \u2018menu\u2019 of more than $5 trillion in cuts they could use to bankroll President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s top priorities this year, including tax cuts and border security. The early list of potential spending offsets obtained by POLITICO includes changes to Medicare and ending Biden administration climate programs, along with slashing welfare and \u2018reimagining\u2019 the Affordable Care Act.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/01\/10\/spending-cuts-house-gop-reconciliation-medicaid-00197541\"><strong>Politico<\/strong><\/a><strong>: House GOP puts Medicaid, ACA, climate measures on chopping block<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By Ben Leonard, Meredith Lee Hill, Kelsey Tamborrino&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>House Republicans are passing around a \u201cmenu\u201d of more than $5 trillion in cuts they could use to bankroll President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s top priorities this year, including tax cuts and border security.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The early list of potential spending offsets obtained by POLITICO includes changes to Medicare and ending Biden administration climate programs, along with slashing welfare and \u201creimagining\u201d the Affordable Care Act.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The people, granted anonymity to discuss closed-door negotiations, said that the list originated from the House Budget Committee, chaired by Rep. Jodey Arrington (R-Texas). <strong>Republicans involved in the reconciliation plans have been generally targeting the listed programs for several months<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In addition to Medicaid and ACA cuts, <strong>the document floats clawing back bipartisan infrastructure and Inflation Reduction Act funding.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The policy menu suggests Republicans could capture major savings from Medicaid \u2014 up to an estimated $2.3 trillion. <strong>The list includes so-called per-capita caps on Medicaid for states<\/strong>, meaning the program would be paid for based on population instead of being an open-ended entitlement, <strong>and would institute work requirements in the program.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It <strong>would \u201crecapture\u201d $46 billion in savings from Affordable Care Act health insurance plan subsidies, <\/strong>which are set to expire at the end of the year, setting up a major policy battle.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Also on the chopping block are President Joe Biden\u2019s climate policies, which are estimated to yield as much as $468 billion. That includes Trump\u2019s repeated promise to repeal Biden\u2019s \u201cEV mandate,\u201d as well as discontinuing \u201cGreen New Deal\u201d provisions from the bipartisan infrastructure law and green energy grants from the IRA.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key Point: \u201cHouse Republicans are passing around a \u2018menu\u2019 of more than $5 trillion in cuts they could use to bankroll President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s top priorities this year, including tax cuts and border security. The early list of potential spending offsets obtained by POLITICO includes changes to Medicare and ending Biden administration climate programs, along [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":293,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1050753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>ICYMI: Politico: House GOP Puts Medicaid, ACA, Climate Measures on Chopping Block - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/icymi-politico-house-gop-puts-medicaid-aca-climate-measures-on-chopping-block\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-01-10T19:59:07+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-01-10T19:59:09+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image.png?w=1024\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Shelby Reese\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Shelby Reese\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/icymi-politico-house-gop-puts-medicaid-aca-climate-measures-on-chopping-block\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/icymi-politico-house-gop-puts-medicaid-aca-climate-measures-on-chopping-block\/\",\"name\":\"ICYMI: Politico: House GOP Puts Medicaid, ACA, Climate Measures on Chopping Block - 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