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WASHINGTON, DC – Today, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reported that congressional Republicans’ plans to slash federal Medicaid funding would cause 10.3 million Americans to lose healthcare coverage and 7.6 million to go uninsured. Released less than an hour before the House Energy and Commerce Committee Republicans began marking up billions of dollars in Medicaid funding cuts, the new report affirms that the congressional Republicans’ push to enact tax cuts for themselves and their billionaire donors will strip millions of access to life-saving healthcare. 

Per POLITICO: 

“The Medicaid portions of the GOP megabill would lead to 10.3 million people losing coverage under the health safety net program and 7.6 million people going uninsured, according to estimates from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office…

Democrats have argued the changes will lead to devastating impacts on health care access and have made the case — including by pointing to previous CBO estimates — that work requirements would simply remove people from coverage rather than motivate beneficiaries to find jobs.

‘Republicans are trying to say this is kind of a moderate bill,” Energy and Commerce ranking member Frank Pallone told reporters Monday. “Nothing could be further from the truth.’”

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