Medicaid not just for 'lazy welfare people': GOP lawmaker [View all]
Source: Raw Story
February 25, 2025 9:09AM ET
House Republicans' plan to take an ax to Medicaid appears to be in real trouble as several Republicans from swing districts are voicing fear that it could harm their own constituents.
One such Republican is Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ), who made his case for not cutting Medicaid on the grounds that such cuts won't just hurt "lazy" people.
“Don’t touch seniors’ Medicare, and don’t cut Medicaid, because it isn’t just for lazy welfare people. It’s for real people,” Van Drew told the Washington Post this week. “That’s the new Republican Party, a populist party, a party of working people, a party of blue-collar people.”
Medicaid provides health insurance to more than 70 million Americans and polls have shown that cutting it would be politically perilous for the GOP, particularly if the money saved from the cuts is used to fund more tax cuts that disproportionately benefit the top one percent of earners.
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