Murray Blasts GOP Medicaid Hearing, Citing $1 Trillion in Cuts and Tax Breaks
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Updated · Senator Patty Murray · Aug 4
Murray Blasts GOP Medicaid Hearing, Citing $1 Trillion in Cuts and Tax Breaks
3 articles · Updated · Senator Patty Murray · Aug 4
Summary
Patty Murray used a Senate Budget Committee hearing to accuse Republicans of staging a sham Medicaid fraud probe while defending last year’s budget bill as the real source of harm to beneficiaries.
At the hearing, Murray said Trump pardoned five former Florida executives convicted in Medicaid fraud and commuted a 20-year sentence tied to a more than $1 billion Medicare-Medicaid fraud scheme.
Questioning a Georgetown witness, she said Republicans enacted more than $1 trillion in healthcare cuts—mostly Medicaid—while delivering about $1 trillion in tax breaks to the top 1%, with roughly 11 million losing Medicaid coverage and more than 15 million losing coverage including ACA tax credits.
The clash widened beyond Medicaid when Chairman Ron Johnson again called Social Security a “legal Ponzi scheme,” prompting Murray to say Democrats would keep fighting to protect Social Security and healthcare.